Geomagnetic paleointensity deduced for the last 300 kyr from Unzen Volcano, Japan, and the dipolar nature of the Iceland Basin excursion

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May 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010e%26psl.293..236y&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 293, Issue 3-4, p. 236-249.

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We have conducted paleointensity measurements of lavas and pyroclastic flows from Unzen Volcano, Japan. They have been shown in a previous study to contain a record of Brunhes Chron secular variation, with one flow recording a transitional direction (Senbongi geomagnetic excursion; 191 ± 17 ka). Various rock magnetic analyses indicate that the main magnetic carriers of samples are Ti-poor titanomagnetites, which have mixtures of single domain (SD) (and/or pseudo-SD) and multi-domain grain sizes. The low-temperature demagnetization (LTD)-double heating test (DHT) Shaw method yielded 209 successful results from 56 sites, giving 27 acceptable site-mean paleointensities for the past 5-300 kyr. When excluding the Senbongi excursion data and two other data points, the data give an average virtual dipole moment (VDM) of 7.69 × 1022 A m2 with a standard deviation of 2.51 × 1022 A m2 (N = 24). This is consistent with the selected 80 site-mean Thellier paleointensity data from the latest paleointensity database, with an average VDM of 7.64 × 1022 A m2 and a standard deviation of 2.56 × 1022 A m2. Paleointensity measurements on samples that record the Senbongi excursion, which is claimed to correlate with the Iceland Basin excursion, provide a value of 7.74-9.37 μT using the LTD-DHT Shaw method. This corresponds to an average (standard deviation) VDM of 2.19 × 1022 A m2 (0.21 × 1022 A m2). When calibrating sedimentary records that capture the Iceland Basin excursion by averaging the LTD-DHT Shaw VDMs obtained from the pre- and post-excursional period, the records give consistent VDM values with the volcanic (Senbongi) record during the excursion. This indicates that variation of the geomagnetic field direction and intensity during the Iceland Basin excursion can be well represented by a simple dipolar variation.

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