Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002pepi..133...57y&link_type=abstract
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 133, Issue 1-4, p. 57-72.
Physics
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A paleomagnetic study has been conducted on three gravity cores obtained from the Ontong-Java Plateau (OJP) in the western equatorial Pacific in order to investigate long-term secular variations during the Brunhes Chron. The cores consist of nanofossil foraminiferal ooze, and covers the last 500,000-800,000 years with average sedimentation rates of 6-9m/m.y. Downcore changes of magnetic concentration represented by magnetic susceptibility are a factor of six or less, and variations in magnetic grain size and mineralogy are estimated to be small from the hysteresis parameters, ratio of anhysteretic remanent magnetization (ARM) to saturation isothermal remanent magnetization (SIRM), and S ratio. These results indicate that the sediments are rock-magnetically homogeneous in general, and are hence suitable for relative paleointensity estimation. I chose SIRM as a normalizer for relative paleointensity. The three cores could be precisely correlated with each other using relative paleointensity variations. Depth-to-age conversion was carried out by tying to the Sint-800 paleointensity stack (). The ages are consistent with the oxygen-isotope stratigraphy available for one of the three cores. Inclination variations were obtained after alternating-field demagnetization. Large inclination anomaly, about -7° in average, was observed as has been suggested to occur in the western equatorial Pacific by some studies. The inclination records of the three cores were integrated into a single record based on the correlation by the relative paleointensity. Long-term inclination variations of the order of 10,000-100,000 years were recognized. The inclinations tend to deflect toward negative when relative paleointensity is low. The variations are similar in general to the record from the West Caroline Basin (), which supports their model that long-term inclination variation is controlled by relative strength of the geocentric axial dipole (GAD) and persistent non-dipole components.
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