Magnetoelastic effect of kimberlite host rocks (Yakutsk diamondiferous province)

The purpose of the research is to conduct petro- and paleomagnetic studies of Early Paleozoic rocks of the carbonate basement of a number of diamond deposits in the Yakutsk diamondiferous province in order to study the changes in petrophysical parameter values in the dynamic influence zone of a kimberlite pipe. It is shown that the formation of kimberlite diatremes accompanied by pulsating explosions shifting upwards brings about thermoelastic stress fields in the kimberlite-bearing medium, which are characterized by epigenetic changes and associated petrophysical heterogeneities (petrophysical anomalies). Petromagnetic heterogeneities of burning and stress are, therefore, some of these petrophysical anomalies, within which kimberlite-bearing rocks have contrastingly changed their original magnetic characteristics under the action of thermodynamic processes. Primarily, petromagnetic anomalies are reflected in the changed nature of the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility: from sedimentary to dyke geotype. In addition, petromagnetic anomalies of magnetic susceptibility can be accompanied by the formation of metachronous natural residual magnetization vectors in kimberlite host rocks. The dimensions of petromagnetic anomalies (petromagnetic heterogeneities) may significantly exceed the size of the kimberlite pipe itself, which facilitates identification and delineation of the most promising areas. Besides, the magnetoelastic effect can create zones close to the kimberlite bodies that are hardly permeable for relatively viscous, protocrystal-rich mafic magmas. This is the reason for their wedging out along petrophysical barriers that is presented by splitting into thin tongues, formation of trap-free windows and corridors, toroidal shafts with sharply increasing thickness in intrusions, etc. Having relatively elevated values of magnetic and density parameters, such forms of igneous formations will be reflected in the observed geophysical fields. Thus, it is reasonable to consider petromagnetic anomalies as an important petrophysical search criterion for the detection of bedrock kimberlite bodies.

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