Restoring Proterozoic deformation within the Superior craton

Geometrical patterns of Paleoproterozoic dyke swarms in the Superior craton, North America, and paleomagnetic studies of those dykes, both indicate relative motion across the Kapuskasing Structural Zone (KSZ) that divides the craton into eastern and western sectors. Previous work has optimized the amount of vertical-axis rotation necessary to bring the dyke trends and paleomagnetic remanence declinations into alignment, yet such calculations are not kinematically viable in a plate-tectonic framework. Here we subdivide the Superior craton into two internally rigid subplates and calculate Euler parameters that optimally group the paleomagnetic remanence data from six dyke swarms with ages between 2470 and 2070 Ma. Our dataset includes 59 sites from the Matachewan dykes for which directional results are reported for the first time. Our preferred restoration of the eastern Superior subprovince relative to the western subprovince is around an Euler pole at 51°N, 85°W, with a rotation angle of 14° CCW. Although we do not include data from the KSZ in our rigid-subplate calculations, we can align its dyke strikes by applying a 23° CCW distributed shear that preserves line length of all dykes pinned to the western margin. Our model predicts approximately 90 km of dextral transpressional displacement at ca. 1900 Ma, about half of which is accommodated by distributed strain within the KSZ, and the other half by oblique lateral thrusting (with NE-vergence) across the Ivanhoe Lake shear zone. We produce a combined apparent polar wander path for the early Paleoproterozoic Superior craton that incorporates data from both western and eastern subplates, and that can be rotated to either of the subplates’ reference frames for the purposes of Archean-Paleoproterozoic supercraton reconstructions.     

U–Pb geochronology of the Western Channel Diabase,northwestern Laurentia: Implications for a large 1.59 Ga magmatic province,Laurentia's APWP and paleocontinental reconstructions of Laurentia,Baltica and Gawler craton of southern Australia

U–Pb baddeleyite ages of 1592 ± 3 and 1590 ± 4 Ma are reported for paleomagnetic sites in sheets and dykes of Western Channel Diabase (WCD) that intrude Proterozoic rocks of the flat-lying Hornby Bay Group in the Hornby Bay basin and the deformed volcanic-plutonic Great Bear Magmatic Zone of Wopmay orogen of northwestern Laurentia. A published WCD paleomagnetic pole at 9°N, 115°W (A₉₅ = 6°) has been demonstrated primary. The new ages indicate that the WCD pole falls midway in time between poles for the 1.74 Ga Cleaver dykes and 1.48–1.42 Ga Elsonian-aged plutons, filling an important gap in the Proterozoic apparent polar wander path (APWP) for Laurentia. The WCD pole can be compared with poles reported from similar-aged magmatic units on other cratons in order to test paleocontinental reconstructions. A comparison of the Laurentian WCD pole with primary ca. 1.63 Ga and ca. 1.575 Ga poles for Baltica, along with an earlier comparison of precisely dated 1.27–1.255 Ga poles for Laurentia and Baltica, suggests that the two cratonic blocks drifted as a single entity with Baltica adjacent to eastern Greenland during the ca. 1.59–1.27 Ga interval. On the basis of less well constrained ca. 1.84–1.83 Ga poles from Laurentia and Baltica, it is possible that this reconstruction existed as early as ca. 1.83 Ga. The WCD is the same age as Wernecke breccias of the Wernecke and Ogilvie Mountains of northwestern Laurentia and bimodal Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV) and related Olympic Dam breccias of the Gawler craton. It has been proposed by others that the Gawler craton lay adjacent to northwestern Laurentia at 1.59 Ga, with the Olympic Dam and Wernecke breccias forming a large hydrothermal province. The primary WCD pole provides an opportunity to test Laurentia–Gawler craton reconstructions at 1.59 Ga. A paleopole has been reported for the GRV, although its primary or secondary nature is open to interpretation. If primary, or if acquired as an overprint during the later stages of 1.60–1.58 Ga Hiltaba-GRV magmatism, then a position for the Gawler craton adjacent to northwestern Laurentia is permitted. If the GRV pole is a later secondary overprint then a reliable comparison with Laurentian poles cannot be made.     

中朝陆块与扬子陆块会聚的古地磁证据

本文收集了1989年之前中朝陆块自晚石炭世至第三纪期间的古地磁极数据.应用分类过滤方法选出可靠的古地磁极，建立了中朝陆块新的视极移曲线.通过中朝陆块与扬子陆块视极移曲线的比较，对前人提出的两个陆块会聚的几种模式进行了检验.本文提出的旋转模式，对研究两陆块的会聚过程是较合理的新观点.     

鄂尔多斯盆地油气地质的古地磁研究

古地磁研究结果表明，鄂尔多斯盆地寒武纪－早中奥陶世位于北纬１４°～２０°的古纬度区内，气候温暖潮湿，其南部和北部边缘的滨浅海相地层中可能富含生物有机质，是寻找该时期油气资源的有利地区；晚奥陶世－早石炭世，它可能经历了大规模的南北向水平构造迁移；晚石炭世－二叠纪，盆地处于北纬２０°左右地区，广泛发育的湖沼相沉积地层是煤成油、气的主要源岩层；三叠纪－侏罗纪，它位于北纬２４°～３１°，干湿交替的气候环境和差异构造旋转作用，为盆地边缘的油气形成和聚集创造了良好条件，因此有希望找到更多的中生代油气资源。     

Stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of a 3-km-thick Miocene lava pile in the Mjoifjördur area,eastern Iceland

We have carried out stratigraphic mapping in the Upper Miocene basalt lava pile around the fjords Mjoifjördur and Seydisfjördur, eastern Iceland. The mapping is based on conventional methods including the use of interbasaltic clastic horizons and petrographically distinct lava groups. These units are also used to provide correlations with the Nordfjördur area south of Mjoifjördur. We present a 3-km composite stratigraphic column for the area between Mjoifjördur and Seydisfjördur. The geology of this area shows some differences from the classical model of Walker for the structure of eastern Iceland partly due to the fact that most of Mjoifjördur is not in the vicinity of central volcanoes. Detailed laboratory measurements of remanent magnetization were carried out on oriented core samples from 363 lavas in 10 selected profiles. The local paleomagnetic polarity stratigraphy supports correlations made on the basis of other criteria. Over 20 geomagnetic reversals are recorded in the eastern Iceland lava pile in a period approximately 13-10 Ma ago. The geomagnetic field during this period averages to a central axial dipole field, and its overall statistical properties resemble those obtained in earlier surveys in Iceland.     

新疆准噶尔地块东北部晚古生代古地磁研究及构造含义

新疆准噶尔二台地区晚古生代古极点位置与塔里木、哈萨克斯坦地块同时代极点位置无显著差别。实测古纬度更接近于用哈萨克斯坦极点计算得到的预期古纬度。因此,晚古生代准噶尔地块与哈萨克斯坦地块已是统一的整体。泥盆纪准噶尔地块内的准噶尔洋盆于晚石炭世闭合于乌伦古河一带。西伯利亚板块、塔里木、哈萨克斯坦地块等组成东部劳亚大陆的块体,尽管其运动演化有所差异,但都遵循了以西伯利亚板块为主体大致相同的总的运动演化过程,即晚古生代至中生代早期,由低纬度向高纬度的NW向运动和侏罗纪以来的SEE向运动     

The Triassic of the Thakkhola (Nepal). II: Paleolatitudes and comparison with other Eastern Tethyan Margins of Gondwana

During the Triassic, the Thakkhola region of the Nepal Himalaya was part of the broad continental shelf of Gondwana facing a wide Eastern Tethys ocean. This margin was continuous from Arabia to Northwest Australia and spanned tropical and temperate latitudes.A compilation of Permian, Triassic and early Jurassic paleomagnetic data from the reconstructed Gondwana blocks indicates that the margin was progressively shifting northward into more tropical latitudes. The Thakkhola region was approximately 55° S during Late Permian, 40° S during Early Triassic, 30° S during Middle Triassic and 25° S during Late Triassic. This paleolatitude change produced a general increase in the relative importance of carbonate deposition through the Triassic on the Himalaya and Australian margins. Regional tectonics were important in governing local subsidence rates and influx of terrigenous clastics to these Gondwana margins; but eustatic sea-level changes provide a regional and global correlation of major marine transgressions, prograding margin deposits and shallowing-upward successions. A general mega-cycle characterizes the Triassic beginning with a major transgression at the base of the Triassic, followed by a general shallowing-upward of facies during Middle and Late Triassic, and climaxing with a regression in the latest Triassic.     

安徽庐江龙桥铁矿含矿地层的古地磁学研究

通过对安徽庐江龙桥铁矿ＺＫ１００４孔（深６１７ｍ）１３２个古地磁标本的研究，认为该矿区赋矿地层的时代应属晚侏罗世（１３６－１４７Ｍａ）；其上覆火山岩地层应旭属下白垩统；将龙门院组、砖桥组划归下白垩统较为合理。     

Thermomagnetic properties of some Late Mesozoic diabase dikes of South Spitsbergen

Summary Laboratory investigations of thermomagnetic properties of specimens from seven diabase dikes of South Spitsbergen have been performed. Studies of temperature variation of isothermal saturation remanence combined with Hopkinson effect measurements and investigations of low temperature remanence give information on the mineral composition of the magnetic phases present in the magnetic fraction of the diabases. The experiments show that the clean natural remanence of these dikes has been acquired at the time of their, consolidation in the Late Mesozoic, though three of them may have been partially remagnetized at the time of Tertiary orogeny. Since the dikes reveal several normal and reversed directions of clean natural remanence, it is concluded that they were formed at different times in the Late Mesozoic, even though some of them may have been subjected to secondary influences at a later date.