Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Oct 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980e%26psl..50..289c&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 50, Issue 1, p. 289-300.
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
Palaeomagnetic and palaeontological studies on samples withdrawn from a 250-m-long unorientated core from Reggio di Calabria, Italy (38°N, 16°E) are described. The lower 200 m of core penetrated off-shore clays and visual examination of the split sections of core indicated no obvious breaks in deposition. After alternating field demagnetization in 200 Oe the palaeomagnetic inclination log shows the Brunhes/Matuyama boundary at 110 m below which the Jaramillo and Olduvai Events within the Matuyama Epoch are identified. This interpretation of the magnetostratigraphy is supported by palaeontological evidence. The rate of accumulation of clay is estimated to have ranged between about 60 and 190 mm/kyr with an overall average through the Matuyama Epoch of about 90 mm/kyr. Assuming that this average rate continued through the Brunhes Epoch, the age of the top of the clay unit is estimated to be about 90,000 yr B.P. About 5 m from the unconformable top surface of the clay, a split sequence of reversed inclinations is interpreted as a record of the Blake Event, and the overall average deposition rate implies that its duration may have been as long as 50,000 yr. No other reversed event is recorded by the palaeomagnetic inclination log through the Brunhes Epoch, though there are four horizons where shallow positive inclinations are recorded.
Creer Kenneth M.
Jacobs Michael A.
Readman Peter W.
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