Авторы: Elena Sergienko, Andrei Kosterov, Petr Kharitonskii

2017 г.

Geophys.J.Int

Palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic studies of impact-related rocks can provide important constraints for deciphering geophysical records from suspected impact structures, their geochronology, and, in the case of very large impacts, their effect on the Earth as a whole. However, the palaeomagnetic record in impact-related rocks may be ambiguous because of the uncertain origin of their natural remanent magnetization (NRM). Towards this end, we carried out a comprehensive rock magnetic and mineralogical study of tagamites (impact melts) from the J¨anisj¨arvi astrobleme, Russian Karelia. Chemical composition of magnetic minerals and non-magnetic matrix was evaluated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray analysis. Magnetic minerals were identified using thermomagnetic analysis at high and low temperatures, whereas their domain state was evaluated from hysteresis measurements and magnetic force microscopy. J¨anisj¨arvi tagamites appear to belong to two essentially different types arising from the differences in the impact melt crystallization conditions. Type I tagamites were likely formed by an extremely rapid cooling of a superhot melt with initial temperatures well above 2000 ◦C. Type II tagamites originate from cooler and more ironenriched melt. Common to the two types is that they both contain a substantial amount of fine inclusions in silicate matrix tens of nanometres to few micrometres in size, which appear to be a major, in some cases dominant, magnetic mineral carrying a significant part of rocks NRM. Structurally, these inclusions are heterogeneous objects consisting of two phases showing both chemical and magnetic contrast.

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