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Paleomagnetism of the Cretaceous rocks from Cape Kronotskiy, East Kamchatka and reconstruction of terrane trajectories in the NE Pacific area
W. Harbert
harbert@pitt.edu
N. V. Tsukanov
D. V. Alexeiev
C. Gaedicke
R. Freitag
B. V. Baranov
S. G. Skolotnev
W. Kramer
W. Seifert
National Energy Technology Laboratory and Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 36, Nakhimovsky Prospekt, 117997 Moscow, Russia
Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky Lane 7, 119017 Moscow, Russia
Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany
University Jena, Institute of Earth Sciences, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena, Germany
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
The Kamchatka Peninsula of northeastern Russia is located along the
northwestern margin of the Bering Sea and consists of zones of complexly
deformed accreted terranes. Paleomagnetic samples were collected for study
from a Late Cretaceous aged locality at Cape Kronotskiy
(λ=54°44.8´ N, φ=162°1.29´ E). Two
components of magnetization were observed. During stepwise thermal
demagnetization, the B-magnetic component was observed up to 600°C
having a direction and associated uncertainty in stratigraphic coordinates of
<i>D<sub>s</sub></i>=300.7°, <i>I<sub>s</sub></i>=48.7°, α<sub>95</sub>=10.9°,
k-value=11.8, n=17. The B component paleolatitude calculated from the
Fisher mean in stratigraphic coordinates and associated statistics are
λ<sub>obs</sub>=30.4° N or S, λ<sub>95</sub>=8.9°,
n=17 (sites), k-value=11. Our overall study paleolatitude result is
similar to a previously reported paleomagnetic study completed within this
unit. Terrane trajectories calculated using the finite rotation poles of
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drift or True Polar Wander hotspot-spin axis relative motion, show that the
sampled unit represents a far traveled tectonostratigraphic terrane and
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