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Magnetic grain-size variations through an ash flow sheet: influence on magnetic properties and implications for cooling history

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Abstract

Rock magnetic studies of tuffs are essential to the interpretation of paleomagnetic data derived from such rocks, provide a basis for interpretation of aeromagnetic data over volcanic terranes, and yield insights into the depositional and cooling histories of ash flow sheets. A rhyolitic ash flow sheet, the Miocene-aged Tiva Canyon Member of the Paintbrush Tuff, contains both titanomagnetite phenocrysts, present in the magma prior to eruption, and cubic Fe-oxide microcrystals that grew after emplacement. Systematic variations in the quantity and magnetic grain size of the microcrystals produce large variations in magnetic properties through a section of the ash flow sheet penetrated in a borehole on the Nevada Test Site. Microcrystals are important contributors to remanent magnetization and magnetic susceptibility in two 15-m-thick zones at the top and bottom. Within these zones the size of microcrystals decreases both toward the quenched margins and toward the interior of the sheet. The decrease in microcrystal size toward the interior of the sheet is interpreted to indicate the presence of a cooling break; possibly represented by a concentration of pumice. -from Author
Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Magnetic grain-size variations through an ash flow sheet: influence on magnetic properties and implications for cooling history
Series title Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume 98
Issue B7
Year Published 1993
Language English
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Larger Work Title Journal of Geophysical Research
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