New Early Permian paleomagnetic results from the Brive basin (French Massif Central) and their implications for Late Variscan tectonics.

Yan Chen; Bernard Henry; Michel Faure; Jean-François Becq-Giraudon; Jean-Yves Talbot; Lucien Daly; Maxime Le Goff

New Early Permian paleomagnetic results from the Brive basin (French Massif Central) and their implications for Late Variscan tectonics.

Yan Chen ¹ Bernard Henry ² Michel Faure ¹ Jean-François Becq-Giraudon ³ Jean-Yves Talbot ¹ Lucien Daly ² Maxime Le Goff ²

1 ISTO - Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans

2 LGP - Laboratoire de Géomagnétisme et Paléomagnétisme

3 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)

Abstract : In order to assess the structural evolution of the Brive basin and the Paleozoic activity of surrounding major faults in the French Massif Central, we carried out a paleomagnetic study on Early Permian rocks from this basin. Positive-fold tests and solely reversed polarities indicate that the characteristic remanent magnetization is likely to be primary. Early Permian tilt-corrected site mean declinations vary from 207°–167° indicating that the Brive basin experienced internal vertical-axis rotations. On the contrary, Late Permian paleomagnetic site means exhibit a circular Fisherian distribution showing no relative rotations. Detailed analyses of Permian paleomagnetic data from five contemporaneous basins of the French Massif Central reveal that these basins share the same equatorial paleolatitude with stable Europe throughout the Permian. However, in Early Permian, three of the five basins experienced differential rotations. The Saint-Affrique basin not only suffered internal deformation during the Early Permian, but the basin as a whole underwent a full-scale counterclockwise vertical-axis block rotation with respect to stable Europe. As a consequence, paleomagnetic data from similar late orogenic basins have to be thus carefully considered for establishment of Apparent Polar Wander paths.

Mots-clés : Stable Europe Permian Brive basin French Massif Central Paleomagnetism

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