D. P. Elston S.L. Bressler 1980 <div id="abstracts" class="Abstracts u-font-serif text-s"><div id="ab1" class="abstract author" lang="en"><div id="aep-abstract-sec-id4"><p>Naturally disaggregated specularite-bearing sandstone from the Triassic Moenkopi Formation, artificially deposited in controlled magnetic fields of ∼5 × 10⁻²<span>&nbsp;</span>mT, acquires a stable remanent magnetization that has systematic errors in inclination and declination. Inclinations about 12° shallower than the applied fields are produced by deposition on a horizontal surface in still water. Deposition from flowing water on a surface inclined 6–10° results in inclination errors of as much as 20°. Water flowing obliquely to the applied field results in declination errors of about 10°, with declinations systematically rotated toward the upstream direction of current flow. These experimental results indicate that specularite-bearing sediment responds to the earth's field in a manner similar to magnetite-bearing sediment, and support observational evidence for a primary magnetization of depositional origin in specularite in red beds of the Moenkopi Formation.</p></div></div></div> application/pdf 10.1016/0012-821X(80)90184-3 en Elsevier Declination and inclination errors in experimentally deposited specularite-bearing sand article