OCEAN FLOOR SPREADING - OLDUVAI AND GILSA EVENTS IN MATUYAMA EPOCH

被引:23
作者
EMILIA, DA
HEINRICHS, DF
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[1] Marathon Oil Company, Denver Research Center, Littleton
[2] Department of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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10.1126/science.166.3910.1267
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The magnetic anomaly usually associated with the Olduvai geomagnetic event (1.96 million years) should probably be associated with the Gilsa event (∼ 1.65 million years). The Olduvai event can be correlated with a consistently appearing minor anomaly called W. This reassignment gives nearly uniform spreading rates for sections of the mid-ocean ridge system considered here.
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