U-Pb DATING OF A REMAGNETIZED PALEOZOIC LIMESTONE
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The Upper Ordovician Trenton Group of New York State is one of a number of Appalachian limestones which yields paleomagnetic poles suggesting disturbance in the late Paleozoic. Calcite fractions dissolved from samples of a 238U 206pb a e of 454+8 Ma the Trenton Limestone define g (MSWD = 12.8) in excellent agreement with 40Ar-39Ar and U-Pb ages for the deposition of the underlying Diecke Bentonite. This requires that the U-Pb system in the calcite has been preserved since deposition and early aliagenesis. If late Paleozoic remagnetization of this limestone was induced by fluids, these fluids did not interact with significant amounts of carbonate. The apparent robustness of the U-Pb system, and the large spread in g values (18.17 -118.8), offers potential precision of +1 Ma in determining the Paleozoic time scale.
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