Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Nov 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000e%26psl.182..237n&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 182, Issue 3-4, p. 237-251.
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
A much improved high-resolution integrated stratigraphy (calcareous plankton biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy) is presented for the classic section of Oued Akrech (Atlantic Morocco) straddling the Tortonian-Messinian boundary. Magnetobiostratigraphic correlations with time-equivalent and astronomically dated sections in the Mediterranean indicate that cyclic alternations of indurated light beige coloured marls and softer, more clayey and reddish coloured marls are dominantly precession-controlled. Characteristic sedimentary cycle patterns, in particular those reflecting precession-obliquity interference, allow for one possible tuning, thus providing accurate astronomical ages for cycles, calcareous plankton events and magnetic reversals. The tuning further indicates that the reddish layers are the equivalent of sapropels in the Mediterranean. The Messinian Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) has recently been formally defined at the base of the reddish layer of cycle No. 15 in section Oued Akrech. This level coincides closely with the first regular occurrence of the Globorotalia miotumida group and is astronomically dated at 7.251 Ma. The global correlation potential is guaranteed by the straightforward calibration of the Oued Akrech magnetostratigraphy to the geomagnetic polarity time scale, locating the GSSP within C3Br.1r. In the marine realm the calcareous nannofossil genus Amaurolithus provides a series of extremely useful events to delimit the boundary on a global scale. The astronomical tuning guarantees a direct first-order calibration of the Messinian GSSP to the standard geological time scale once, as anticipated, the late Miocene part of the astronomical time scale has been incorporated.
Negri Agustín
Villa Gabriele
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