A realistic approach to explanation of the normal and reversed remanent magnetization of rocks: Application for submarine volcanics

Abstract

The results of the magnetic measurements and mineralogic data of the submarine
basalts and peridotites have been compared with the original model to explain
the origin of the normal and the reversed remanent magnetization (RM) of volcanics.
According to the author the Ti-rich titano-magnetite (Ti-Mt) bearing rocks (without the
secondary magnetic phase) and the magnetite are always the carriers of only normal RM.
The low-temperature oxidized Ti-Mt bearing rocks and those of the ilmenite-hematite
bearing rocks of the deutheric oxidation origin (of the defined composition) are the carriers
of dominantly reversed RM of the self-reversal origin. This idea have been approved
by many results of submarine volcanics, mostly basalts.