Timing of the Nihewan formation and faunas   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Chenglong Deng  Rixiang Zhu  Rui Zhang  Hong Ao  Yongxin Pan 《Quaternary Research》2008,69(1):77-90

Magnetostratigraphic dating of the fluvio-lacustrine sequence in the Nihewan Basin, North China, has permitted the precise timing of the basin infilling and associated Nihewan mammalian faunas. The combined evidence of new paleomagnetic findings from the Hongya and Huabaogou sections of the eastern Nihewan Basin and previously published magnetochronological data suggests that the Nihewan Formation records the tectono-sedimentary processes of the Plio-Pleistocene Nihewan Basin and that the Nihewan faunas can be placed between the Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic reversal and the onset of the Olduvai subchron (0.78-1.95 Ma). The onset and termination of the basin deposition occurred just prior to the Gauss-Matuyama geomagnetic reversal and during the period from the last interglaciation to the late last glaciation, respectively, suggesting that the Nihewan Formation is of Late Pliocene to late Pleistocene age. The Nihewan faunas, comprising a series of mammalian faunas (such as Maliang, Donggutuo, Xiaochangliang, Banshan, Majuangou, Huabaogou, Xiashagou, Danangou and Dongyaozitou), are suggested to span a time range of about 0.8-2.0 Ma. The combination of our new and previously published magnetostratigraphy has significantly refined the chronology of the terrestrial Nihewan Formation and faunas.  相似文献   

Magnetostratigraphic evidence from the Cold Creek bar for onset of ice-age cataclysmic floods in eastern Washington during the Early Pleistocene     

Christopher J. Pluhar  Bruce N. Bjornstad  Robert S. Coe 《Quaternary Research》2006,65(1):123-135

This study provides a detailed magnetostratigraphy of sediments composing the Cold Creek cataclysmic flood bar in the Pasco Basin, Washington. Our interpretation suggests onset of Missoula floods or similar events prior to 1.1 myr, later than previously suggested by Bjornstad et al. [Bjornstad, B.N., Fecht, K.R., Pluhar, C.J., 2001. Long history of pre-Wisconsin, Ice Age cataclysmic floods: evidence from southeastern Washington State. Journal of Geology 109 (6), 695-713]. Nonetheless these data suggest that Channeled Scabland features formed over a much longer timespan than commonly cited, that continental ice sheets of the early Pleistocene reached as far south as those of the late Pleistocene, and that similar physiography existed in eastern Washington and perhaps Montana to both generate and route Missoula-flood-like events. This study adds paleomagnetic polarity results from 213 new samples of silts and sands derived from nine new drill cores penetrating the Cold Creek cataclysmic flood bar to our previous database of 53 samples from four boreholes, resulting in a much more robust and detailed magnetostratigraphy. Rock magnetic studies on these sediments show pure magnetite to be the predominant remanence-carrying magnetic mineral, ruling out widespread remagnetization by secondary mineralization. The magnetostratigraphy at eastern Cold Creek bar is characterized by a normal polarity interval bracketed by reversed polarities. Equating the normal zone with the Jaramillo subchron (0.99-1.07 myr) affords the simplest correlation to the magnetic polarity timescale. Western Cold Creek bar was likely deposited during the Brunhes chron (0-0.78 myr) since it exhibits mainly normal polarities with only two thin reversed-polarity horizons that we interpret as magnetic excursions during the Brunhes.  相似文献   

The growth, collapse and quiescence of Teno volcano, Tenerife: new constraints from paleomagnetic data     

R. Leonhardt  H. C. Soffel 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2006,95(6):1053-1064

Tenerife basically consists of three Miocene shield volcanoes, the Anaga, the Teno and Central shield, as well as the Pliocene Cañadas volcano. The temporal evolution and structural significance of each volcano with respect to the history of Tenerife is still a matter of debate. We present paleomagnetic results in order to enhance the view of the volcanic history of the Teno volcano by means of magnetostratigraphy. It is found that the initial subaerial phase shows reverse magnetizations throughout. After two major sector collapses, dominantly normally magnetized lavas extruded. Comparisons of observed magnetic polarities with the geomagnetic polarity timescale show that these volcanic activities occurred within 0.4 Myr between 6.3 and 5.9 Ma. Significantly younger flows, ～ 5.3 Myr old according to their radiometric age, revealed again normal polarity throughout. The absence of inversely magnetized lavas in-between the two normal periods indicates a volcanic hiatus or erosional phase. The evolutionary sequence and the estimated high production rates for the initial building phase are similar as would be expected for a hotspot volcano. The average geomagnetic field for 6.0 ± 0.2 Ma is close to an axial dipole field showing a slight far-sided/right-handed effect. The field strength, determined by Thellier-type intensity determinations, corresponds to a virtual axial dipole moment of 4.9 × 10²² A m². This value is approximately half of the present day field strength, but similar to values obtained for the mid-Miocene. It also corresponds to the proposed tertiary low-field level of the geomagnetic dipole moment.  相似文献   

Palaeomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy of the Permian–Triassic northwest central Siberian Trap Basalts     

E.L. Gurevitch  C. Heunemann  V. Rad'ko  M. Westphal  V. Bachtadse  J.P. Pozzi  H. Feinberg 《Tectonophysics》2004,379(1-4):211-226

A detailed palaeomagnetic and magnetostratigraphic study of the Permian–Triassic Siberian Trap Basalts (STB) in the Noril'sk and Abagalakh regions in northwest Central Siberia is presented. Thermal (TH) and alternating field (AF) demagnetisation techniques have been used and yielded characteristic magnetisation directions. The natural remanent magnetisation of both surface and subsurface samples is characterised by a single component in most cases. Occasionally, a viscous overprint can be identified which is easily removed by TH or AF demagnetisation.The resulting average mean direction after tectonic correction for the 95 flows sampled in outcrops is D=93.7°, I=74.7° with k=19 and α₉₅=3.3°. The corresponding pole position is 56.2°N, 146.0°E.Unoriented samples from four boreholes cores in the same regions have also been studied. They confirm the reversed–normal succession found in outcrops. The fact that only one reversal of the Earth's magnetic field has been recorded in the traps can be taken as evidence for a rather short time span for the major eruptive episode in this region. However, there is evidence elsewhere that the whole volcanic activity associated with the emplacement of the STB was much longer and lasted several million years.  相似文献   

元谋人时代研究评述——兼论我国早更新世古人类时代问题   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

姚海涛  邓成龙  朱日祥 《地球科学进展》2005,20(11):1191-1198

我国早更新世古人类遗址时代的确定对于认识早期人类起源、扩散与演化具有重要意义。对元谋人化石的各种年龄测定结果和认识分歧进行了综合评述。综合分析认为，在翔实的岩石地层学和古生物地层学基础上，开展高分辨率磁性地层学研究是解决包括元谋人在内的这一时期哺乳动物时代科学问题的最有效的研究途径。  相似文献   

The lower marine to lower freshwater Molasse transition in the northern Alpine foreland basin (Oligocene; central Switzerland–south Germany): age and geodynamic implications     

Oliver Kempf  Jörg Pross 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2005,94(1):160-171

The Wilhelmine Alpe section near Immenstadt (Allgäu, south Germany), which represents one of the best continuously exposed outcrops within the northern Alpine foreland basin, has been analyzed for magnetostratigraphic and palynostratigraphic signals. The section comprises the marine-to-terrestrial transition from Lower Marine (UMM) to Lower Freshwater Molasse (USM) sediments. Based on the correlation of the local magnetic pattern with the geomagnetic polarity timescale (GPTS) and palynostratigraphic data, an age of about 31 Ma is suggested for the UMM–USM transition in the Wilhelmine Alpe section. A comparison with coeval magnetostratigraphic sections from central and eastern Switzerland indicates that the regression of the UMM sea along the southern margin of the Molasse basin occurred strongly heterochronously between 31.5 and 30 Ma. The heterochroneity is attributed to the deposition of fan-delta and alluvial fan sediments which document that the overall marine conditions during the UMM were accompanied by strong clastic input derived from the rising Alps. This clastic contribution had a much stronger influence on the depositional pattern than previously thought.  相似文献   

Magnetostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian continental record in the Upper Aude Valley (northern Pyrenees,France): Placing age constraints on the succession of dinosaur-bearing sites     

《Cretaceous Research》2016

The first detailed stratigraphic succession of the Upper Cretaceous continental record from the Upper Aude Valley (southern France) is presented together with a magnetostratigraphic study. The combined stratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Marnes rouges inférieures Fm (Lower Red Marls), constrained by biochronological markers such as charophyte occurrence and revised dinosaur eggshells, results in a succession of fluvial red beds dated from chron C32n to the top of chron C31r. It implies an earliest Maastrichtian age close to the C32n.1n-C31r reversal for the majority of the dinosaur sites including Bellevue. In contrast, the upper Maastrichtian is likely represented by a short interval within the lacustrine-palustrine Calcaires et argiles de Vignevieille Fm (Vignevieille Limestones), or it might even not be recorded. The proposed age indicates that the marine to continental transition, as a result of the Late Cretaceous transgression, took place earlier in the north Pyrenean basin than in the southern area.  相似文献   

宁夏贺家口子地区晚新生代地层序列及其构造意义   总被引：12，自引：0，他引：12  

申旭辉  田勤俭  丁国瑜  韦开波  陈正位  柴炽章 《中国地震》2001,17(2):156-166

对宁夏贺家口子新生代剖面进行了详细的岩石地层和磁性地层研究，并重点标定了晚第三纪和早第四纪地层的年代。结合相应的地层接触关系和沉积相研究，获得了该剖面构造事件序列信息。认为：青藏高原东北边缘的海原－同心弧形构造束地区强烈的新生代构造变形开始于10MaBP左右，并经历了多个变形阶段。贺家口子剖面所揭示出来的这种构造变形特征，在青藏高原东北边缘地区具有区域意义。  相似文献   

大洋钻探与地层学——高分辨率磁性生物年代地层格架     

徐钰麟 《地球科学进展》1995,10(3):258-262

深海钻探计划（ＤＳＤＰ）和大洋钻探计划（ＯＤＰ）实施以来促进了地层学的发展。通过对大洋沉积物的研究，利用生物属，种的始，末现面事件建立起了晚中生代－新生代高精度的钙质超微化石，有孔虫，放射虫以及沟鞭藻的化石带，综合利用这些基准面事件，可使地层划分精度达１０万年以内。使用液压活塞取心技术，建立起了完整，连续的中，新生代磁性地层剖面，加之放射性年龄的测定，确定了数百个生物属，种始，末现面的绝对年龄值，  相似文献   

酒西盆地、酒东盆地第三系磁性地层的划分与对比   总被引：23，自引：0，他引：23  

黄华芳  彭作林等 《甘肃地质》1993,2(1):6-16

本文运用磁性地层学理论和方法对酒西盆地、酒东盆地第三系进行了划分对比,部分修正了前人的划分方案,在此基础上对两盆地第三纪各时期沉降速率进行了估算和比较,并对它们的构造运动特征提出了见解。  相似文献