Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of rocks and minerals
Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of rocks and minerals
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DOI:
10.1029/jz068i001p00279
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发表时间:
1963
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通讯作者:
S. Uyeda;M. Fuller;J. Belshe;R. Girdler
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作者:
S. Uyeda;M. Fuller;J. Belshe;R. Girdler
There are two predominant causes for the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of rocks and ferrimagnetic minerals: the shape of the magnetic material and crystalline anisotropy. In general, these factors may operate simultaneously, but in rock magnetism their effects are frequently separable. In the case of shape‐effect anisotropy, one can predict the degree of anisotropy by an ellipsoidal approximation, provided that the magnitude of the bulk susceptibility and the dimensions of the body are known. The anisotropy is chiefly due to the shape effect in the cubic titanomagnetites and in the rocks containing them, whereas crystalline anisotropy dominates in crystals of lower symmetry (pyrrhotites, hematites, ilmenites). In magnetically anisotropic rocks and minerals, the direction of thermoremanent magnetism is found to deviate sometimes markedly, and always systematically, from that of the external magnetic field. Several examples and some theoretical considerations are given.