Title: Paleomagnetic data of middle and upper Triassic age from the Dolomites (Eastern Alps, Italy)
Abstract: A paleomagnetic survey of Middle and Upper Triassic porphyrites, dykes, and tuffites from the Dolomites (Eastern Alps, Italy) has yielded an average direction (based on 57 samples from 12 collecting localities) with declination 329°E of true north and inclination +25° after magnetic cleaning and correction for geological dip. The declination deviates from that of "stable" Northern Europe by about 50°, but the inclination agrees well with the expected value. This indicates that the Dolomites area has rotated 50° anticlockwise relative to northern Europe since the Triassic but there is no evidence of relative changes in latitude. A few new results from the Predazzo complex, a Triassic igneous group, and from the Valgardena Red Beds of Middle and Upper Permian age, are also described.
Publication Year: 1970
Publication Date: 1970-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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