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IN order to investigate the effect of the deformation associated with mountain building upon the aniso-tropy of susceptibility and the natural remanent magnetization of rocks, approximately a hundred specimens were prepared for measurement from some fifty samples of Lower Palæozoic Welsh slates cleaved during the Caledonian orogeny. The anisotropy in fields of less than two œrsted was determined with a transformer bridge1 and the natural remanent magnetization with an astatic magnetometer. The results showed that the cleavage is a plane of high susceptibility, and that the remanent vector is parallel to it. In some of the slates it appears that the direction of natural remanent magnetization has been controlled by the anisotropic susceptibility, and in others that the pattern of anisotropy and the natural remanent magnetization have been aligned with the cleavage independently. I am indebted to Dr. J. C. Belshé and Dr. R. W. Girdler, with whose help the susceptibility work was begun.
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FULLER, M. Anisotropy of Susceptibility and the Natural Remanent Magnetization of Some Welsh Slates. Nature 186, 791–792 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186791a0
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