Geomagnetic Reversals in Neoproterozoic Cap Carbonates and Time Constraints on Snowball Earth Events

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1513 Geomagnetic Excursions, 1520 Magnetostratigraphy, 1527 Paleomagnetism Applied To Geologic Processes, 1535 Reversals: Process, Timescale, Magnetostratigraphy

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The end of the Neoproterozoic is characterized by ubiquitous glacial deposition being followed by the onset of extensive carbonate platforms, marking important changes in climate. The duration of these climatic oscillations is still poorly constrained with estimates varying from hundreds to hundreds of thousand years. Here we report a high-resolution magnetostratigraphic study of Neoproterozoic cap carbonates from the Amazon Craton. These rocks represent the first transgressive carbonate sequence after glacial deposits and present the isotopic signatures and sedimentary structures that typify cap carbonates elsewhere in the world, such as negative delta13C values, tubes, aragonite-pseudomorph crystal fans, pseudo-tepees (megaripples). Age constraints are given by shifts in 87Sr/86Sr ratios towards values greater than 0.7081 and by a Pb-Pb age of 627 ± 32 Ma. Two sections five kilometers apart were sampled with a 20 cm spacing (=101 sites) and revealed five coherent reversals. Magnetization is carried by detrital hematite. These data were used to constrain both the paleogeographic position of the Amazon Craton by the end of Neoproterozoic glaciations, and the time of cap carbonate deposition (in the order of hundreds of thousand years) with implications for geochemical models. Comparison with results from correlative successions in Africa, Oman and Australia will also be presented.

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