Contribution of magnetic aftereffect and induction transition characteristics of basalts from the Vitim plateau
© Kazanskiy A.Yu., Matasova G.G., Kozhevnikov N.O., Antonov E.Yu., Maksimov P.S.
To study magnetic aftereffect (magnetic viscosity) with its manifestations making difficulties for interpretation of the data of transitional
processes, comprehensive experimental studies of samples have been conducted, which characterize the upper rock mass of the
Vitim basaltic plateau. An attempt to reveal the character of distribution of magnetically viscous rocks within volcano-sedimentary
succession of strata has been made and to find out which ferromagnetic particles display the effect of magnetic viscosity on the
inductive transient response. It has been shown that in time-domain measurements with inductive systems the greatest contribution
of magnetic viscosity effect is brought by the most fresh, unchanged rocks. Magnetic viscosity effect is mainly caused by
super-paramagnetic grains of low-titanic titanomagnetite, close to pure magnetite with rather narrow grain-size interval
(most probably 0.0254-0.029 µm). As for the smaller superparamagnetic grains, the contribution of relaxation of
their magnetization to inductive transient responses is approximately 3 times lower. Possible criteria of diagnostics of
superparamagnetic particles of different size are proposed on the base of petro-magnetic data.
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