Variation of the magnetic properties in a basaltic dyke with concentric cooling zones

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Apr 1977

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 120-136.

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The effects of the variation of magnetic grain size on the magnetic properties of rocks have been studied throughout a reversely magnetized basaltic dyke with concentric cooling zones. Except in a few tachylites in which the magnetic mineral is a Ti-rich titanomagnetite, in the bulk of the dyke the magnetization is carried by almost pure magnetite grains. Although the percentage p of these magnetic oxides varies slightly, the large changes in the various magnetic parameters observed across the dyke are essentially attributable to large variations in the grain size of the magnetic particles. From the outer scoria region, where the magnetic grains are a mixture of single-domain (SD) and superparamagnetic (SP) grains, to the tachylite zone with finely crystallized basaltic glass containing interacting elongated SD particles, one observes an increase of both the ratio of the saturation remanent magnetization and the saturation induced magnetization Jrs/Jis, the bulk coercive force Hc, the median destructive field MDF, the intensity of the remanent magnetization Jr, and the Koenigsberger ratio Q. In the tachylites these parameters reach unusually high values, for subaerial basalts: = 0.3, = 460 Oe, = 620 Oe r.m.s., = 2.7 . 10-2 e.m.u. cm-3 = 24 These parameters decrease in the basalt toward the centre of the dyke where pseudo-single-domain (pseudo-SD) particles coexist together with multidomain (MD) grains. The susceptibility remains approximately constant from the inner basalt to the tachylite, but increases in the scoria up to values 10 times higher owing to the presence of SP particles. The magnetic viscosity increases also drastically toward the margin of the dyke due to an increase of the fraction of the SD particles just above the superparamagnetic threshold.

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