Paleomagnetic records and mineral-magnetic properties of deep-sea sediments in the NW pacific: Paleoenvironmental implication

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作者：
Cheong Kee Park
Wonnyon Kim
Youngtak Ko
Hyun-Bok Lee
Jai-Woon Moon
Seong-Jae Doh
机构：
[1] Deep-sea and Seabed Resources Research Division, KIOST, Ansan
[2] Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Science, Korea University, Seoul
来源：
Ocean Science Journal | 2012年 / 47卷 / 4期
关键词：
Korea deep-sea research program; magnetostratigraphy; mineral-magnetic properties; paleoenvironment;
D O I：
10.1007/s12601-012-0045-z
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摘要：
The paleomagnetic records and mineral-magnetic properties of unconsolidated core sediment from the east Mariana Basin of the western Pacific have been analyzed to trace the time-dependent variations in sedimentary environments. Progressive alternating field demagnetization effectively extracts a stable remanent magnetization showing both normal and reverse polarities. Comparison of successive polarity changes, recorded in the sediment core, with reference magnetic polarity time-scale, reveals that the recovered sediment column was deposited since the late Pliocene. From the sediment age model, calculated sedimentation rate during the late Pliocene was 9.8 times higher than that during the Pleistocene. Considering the oceanic environments and geologic setting in the study area, the anomalous high sediment flux during the late Pliocene was probably caused by enhanced current flows, such as North Equatorial Current, associated with atmospheric circulation as well as by debris flows from adjacent sea mounts. In addition, the systematic variation of mineral-magnetic properties indicates periodical fluxes of coarse and magnetically stable particles, on the fine-grained dominant sedimentary environments. Such influxes, however, would not be related to syn-volcanic activities, because the summits of seamounts were totally blanketed by biogenic Pliocene-Pleistocene sediments. It is, hence, reasonable to interpret that paleomagnetic and mineral-magnetic data probably reflect drastic paleoenvironmental changes at the boundary between the Pliocene and Pleistocene, where strong current and atmospheric circulations decreased. © 2012 Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI) and the Korean Society of Oceanography (KSO) and Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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