%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Moulin, M.
%A Fluteau, F.
%A Courtillot, V.
%A Marsh, J.
%A Delpech, G.
%A Quidelleur, X.
%A Gérard, Martine
%A Jay, A. E.
%T An attempt to constrain the age, duration, and eruptive history of the Karoo flood basalt : Naude's Nek section (South Africa)
%D 2011
%L fdi:010053729
%G ENG
%J Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
%@ 0148-0227
%M ISI:000292835300002
%P B07403
%R 10.1029/2011jb008210
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010053729
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2011/08/010053729.pdf
%V 116
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X We have carried out paleomagnetic sampling of a similar to 750 m sequence of the Karoo large igneous province (Naude's Nek Pass, South Africa). K-Ar dating (Cassignol-Gillot) has been performed on four samples from the 650 m upper unit (mean age 179.2 +/- 1.8 Ma) and a sample from the lower unit (184.8 +/- 2.6 Ma). A succession of two phases of volcanism is suggested. The lower 25 flows (115 m thick) have recorded a reversed polarity; the next 23 flows (135 m thick) are transitional and contribute a detailed record of the "Van Zijl" (1962) Jurassic reversal. The upper 38 flows (500 m thick) have normal polarity. Directional groups (DGs) of lava flows with quasi-identical remanence directions indicate eruption durations too short to have recorded geomagnetic secular variation and hence are interpreted as single eruptive events. Altogether, 19 DGs and 10 sheet lobes yield a sequence of 29 distinct directions. This could correspond to a total eruptive activity shorter than 3000 years, less than one per mil of the total duration over which the section was emplaced. We obtain a new paleomagnetic pole for South Africa at similar to 180 Ma (lambda = 75.2 degrees N, phi = 276.4 degrees E, A(95) = 5.8 degrees, N = 19), which is consistent with earlier reports.
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