Measurement of Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility on Xiashu Loess and Its s Implication to Sedimentology

The measurement of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) is a newly developed method that is used to investigate the sedimentary fabric of the sediments. The measurement of AMS on the loess in Central China showed that the primary eolian loess and the secondary aqueous loess different sediments which deposited in different medium-air or water, and there is distinct fabric from each other,so according to the difference we could distinguish the two sorts of sediments. On the basis of analysis on the theory and method to investigate the sedimentary fabric of loess-like sediment by the measurement of AMS,the paper attempts to use the method on the study of Xiashu loess in Nanjing. The results of the measurement show that the AMS of Xiashu loess is not clear,the percent age of anisotropy (P) is 1. 004