High resolution magnetostratigraphy of Caribbean Plio-Pleistocene deep-sea sediments

Articles:

Title:: High resolution magnetostratigraphy of Caribbean Plio-Pleistocene deep-sea sediments
Author(s):: Kent, Dennis V.
Spariosu, Dann J.
Date:: 1983
Type:: Articles
Department:: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Volume:: 42
Permanent URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12204
Book/Journal Title:: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Abstract:: The ability of the hydraulic piston corer (HPC) to recover virtually undisturbed sections of semi-consolidated deep-sea sediments suitable for paleomagnetic study was first demonstrated on Leg 64 and Leg 68 of the Glomar Challenger. Reported here is a complete magnetostratigraphy for a 150 m section of Plio-Pleistocene pelagic deposits recovered at Site 502 in the Caribbean. Correlation of the magnetic polarity zones to the well-dated standard sequence of geomagnetic polarity reversals provides a precise geochronological framework for age-calibration of calcareous plankton fossil datums and which, combined with the moderate to high sedimentation rates (24–38 m/m.y.), present an opportunity to study paleoenvironmental variations in the Early Pleistocene and the Pliocene with a time control and resolution heretofore possible only in Late Pleistocene deep-sea sediment cores.
Subject(s):: Physical oceanography
Geophysics
Sedimentary geology
DOI:: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182(83)90038-X