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- Title
Origin of layering in cumulate gabbros in the Oman ophiolite: Insights from magnetic susceptibility measurements in the Wadi Sadm area.
- Authors
Kawamura, Kiichiro; Hosono, Takahiro; Allawati, Huda Mohamed; Ogawa, Yujiro; Taniguchi, Hidetsugu
- Abstract
Magnetic susceptibility and the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility were measured on an 800-cm-thick succession of cumulate gabbro in the Sadm area of the Oman ophiolite. The section contained three distinct cumulate units. The susceptibility tends to decrease upward in each from a melanocratic layer (several tens of centimeters thick) to a leucocratic layer (a few meters thick). The susceptibility decreases in accordance with the decreasing number of magnetite grains, which are the alteration product mainly of olivine minerals. This suggests the cyclic downward accumulation of olivine in the cumulate gabbro. The apparent strain deduced from the patterns of magnetic and grain fabrics was the result mostly of simple shear, so that the layering of gabbro is understood to be formed primarily by a crystal cumulus process followed by simple shear deformation.
- Subjects
OMAN; GABBRO; OPHIOLITES; GEOMAGNETISM; GEOPHYSICS
- Publication
Island Arc, 2005, Vol 14, Issue 4, p564
- ISSN
1038-4871
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1440-1738.2005.00484.x