Rock-Magnetic Properties of Kondapalle-Pangidi Layered Complex: Evidences Towards Remanence Feasibility

69 DOI: 10.37398/JSR.2022.660108 Abstract:The present study concentrates on the petrography, generation of Fe-Ti oxides and magnetic parameters like magnetic susceptibility and Saturating Isothermal Remanence Magnetization (SIRM) to determine the carriers of magnetic remanence, their textural relations with the silicate minerals and to determine the feasibility of the varied rock types in recording magnetic remanence based on a comparative study of the magnetic susceptibility (serving as a proxy for the induced magnetization) and SIRM (as a representative of remanent magnetization). Studies revealed that although the magnetic susceptibility of the mafic granulites are lesser than the other rocks, they are the most feasible rocks in the terrain for recording remanence. Moreover, the Fe-Ti oxides observed in the reflected light study also bears good correlation with the magnetic parameters which is being explained here.