Geomagnetic reversal data statistically appraised

Standard methods of the statistical analysis of time series are applied to available data on geomagnetic reversals. The times between reversals from Kimmeridgian (148 m.y. BP) to Recent display pronounced trend with an increasing rate of occurrence parameter. This is not solely due to the Late Barremian to Late Coniacian quiet period, for significant trend exists in the observations running from Late Maastrichtian (67 m.y. BP) to Recent, although the size of the trend effect decreases steadily. From Middle Eocene (46 m.y. BP) onwards, the rate of occurrence of reversals becomes trend-free, forming some kind of a renewal process (excluding the Poisson process). A comparison of the sequences of times between normal, respectively, reversed polarities for the Early Eocene to Recent shows them to be almost identical. The selected intervals Kimmeridgian to Barremian, Eocene to Oligocene and Oligocene to Miocene are trend-free. The agreement between periods of pronounced non-stationarity in the frequency of reversals and epicontinental transgressions is briefly noted.     

Nonlinear Dynamic Study on Geomagnetic Polarity Reversal and Cretaceous Normal Superchron

It is generally acknowledged that geomagnetic polarity has reversed many times in geological history and an abnormal geologic phenomenon is the Cretaceous normal superchron. However, the causes have been unknown up to now. The nonlinear theory has been applied to analyze the phenomenon in geomagnetic polarity reversal and the Cretaceous normal superchron. The Cretaceous normal superchron implies that interaction of the Earth’s core-mantle and liquid movement in the outer core may be the lowest energy state and the system of Earth magnetic field maintains a sort of temporal or spatial order structure by exchanging substance and energy in the outside continuously. During 121-83 Ma, there was no impact of a celestial body that would result in a geomagnetic polarity reversal, which may be a cause for occurrence of the Cretaceous normal superchron.The randomness of geomagnetic polarity reversal has the self-reversion characteristic of chaos and the chaos theory gives a simple and clear explanation for the dynamic cause of the geomagnetic polarity reversal.     

Geomagnetic reversal history

The history of geomagnetic polarity reversals in the Cenozoic and Late Mesozoic is well known since the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian). A continuous record of polarity has been derived for this time interval from the interpretation of oceanic magnetic anomalies. Most of the polarity chrons in this oceanic record have been verified and dated in coordinated magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic studies. This has led to the generation of progressively refined and improved geomagnetic reversal time-scales that provide a framework for absolute dating of palaeontological zonations. By serving as a basis for statistical analysis of reversal frequency they provide information relevant to processes in the Earth's core. The rate of reversals since the Late Cretaceous shows a steady increase on which a cyclical variation appears to be superposed. A stochastic model for reversals predicts a Poisson distribution of polarity interval lengths. The polarity time scales contain many fewer short (± 50 kyr) polarity chrons than a Poisson distribution, and it has been suggested that a gamma renewal process with index greater than unity is a more appropriate statistical model. The statistical arguments give no convincing reason for abandoning the model and other, physical reasons must be sought to explain the incompleteness of the reversal record. The discovery and verification of short chrons in the oceanic record may best be investigated by deep-tow magnetometer surveys. The reversal history before the Late Jurassic is not well known. Magnetostratigraphy in coeval Early Jurassic sections has not given correlatable records and it has not been possible to compile a definitive polarity sequence. Evaluation of geomagnetic polarity history for the Early Mesozoic and the Palaeozoic will require unambiguous magnetostratigraphy in well-dated sections where verification of the polarity pattern is possible at the fossil zone or stage level.     

地球磁极倒转的分形混沌研究

地球磁场多次发生南北(正负)磁极位置的变换,这已为大家所公认。但造成这种异常现象的原因,则是迄今未能很好解答的一个难题。应用分形混沌理论对地球磁极倒转进行了分析,认为发生地球磁极倒转时间段在时间轴上具有分形分布的性质;地球磁场系统通过不断与外界交换物质和能量,维持一种空间或时间的有序结构。地球磁场极性的随机倒转具有混沌运动的自逆转特性,混沌理论给地磁极性倒转提出了一个简明的动力机制解释。     

Magnetostratigraphy of the Middle–Upper Cambrian Verkhnyaya Lena Group and Lower Ordovician Ust-Kut formation in the southern Siberian Platform

The available paleomagnetic data on the Verkhnyaya Lena Group from different areas of the southern Siberian Platform are revised. The group rests unconformably upon the Lower Cambrian strata and is overlain by Lower Ordovician rocks, which determines conditionally the age of its red-colored deposits. Paleomagnetic correlation of composite sections through the region using defined zones of normal and reversed magnetic polarity serves as a basis for development of the magnetostratigraphic scale for the Verkhnyaya Lena Group. The scale includes nine magnetic zones, which play the role of markers; seven of them are traceable in all the examined sections of the southern Siberian Platform. By the distribution of zones with normal (N) and reversed (R) polarity, the magnetostratigraphic scale is subdivided into three parts. Its lower part is represented by reversed polarity, which is characteristic of the second half of the Lower Cambrian. The middle part is characterized by frequently alternating zones with normal and reversed polarity corresponding to the Middle Cambrian. The upper part of the scale corresponds to the interval of reversed polarity characteristic of the Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician. The Middle–Upper Cambrian boundary is located near the last N–R reversal of the geomagnetic field in the Cambrian. The magnetostratigraphic scale includes nine orthozones united into three superzones, which are attributed to two hyperzones of magnetic polarity.     

Magnetostratigraphic Study of Meishan Permian-Triassic Section, Changxing, Zhejiang Province, China

INTRODUCTIONBecause many P/ T boundary sections around the worldare stratigraphically unconformed,som e possible exceptionsdeveloped in Greenland,Iran,Russia and South China are ofcourse of international importance.Especially successive sedi-ments from the L ate Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic widely ap-peared in South China,for example,the Meishan Section inChangxing County,Zhejiang Province,and som e analogies inGuangyuan,Wulong and Shangsi counties,Sichuan Province.Some geologists…     

Boreal-tethyan correlation of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary interval by magneto- and biostratigraphy

As a result of detail sampling and paleomagnetic study of the 27-m-thick section of Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary beds in the Nordvik Peninsula (Anabar Bay, Laptev Sea), a succession of M-zones correlative with chrons M20n-M17r is established for the first time in the Boreal deposits. Inside the normal polarity zone corresponding to Chron M20n, a thin interval of reversed polarity, presumably an equivalent of the Kysuca Subzone (M20n.1r), is discovered. The other thin interval of reversed polarity established within the next normal polarity zone (M19n) is correlated with the Brodno Subzone (M19n.1r). The same succession of normal and reversed polarity zones has been discovered recently in the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary beds of the Tethyan sections: in the Bosso Valley (Italy), at the Brodno (Slovak Republic) and Puerto Escaño (Spain) sites. Correlation of successions established lead us to conclusion, that the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary corresponds in the Panboreal Superrealm to a level within the Craspedites taimyrensis Zone of the upper Volgian Substage. Hence, the greatest part of Volgian Stage should be included into the Jurassic System. Biostratigraphic data do not contradict this conclusion.     

地球磁极倒转的星地碰撞成因

地球磁场多次发生南北(正负)磁极位置的变换, 即极性倒转, 这已为大家所公认; 但造成这种极性倒转的原因, 则是迄今未能很好解答的一个难题.基于地球磁场的发电机效应理论和星地碰撞的动力效应研究, 探讨了外星撞击地球造成地磁场极性倒转的可能性.研究表明, 当外星沿与地球自转的正逆不同方向撞击地球时引起的地球转速快慢变化, 可导致地球内部核、幔圈层之间的转速相对快慢关系(相对运动方向)发生改变, 从而受其控制的液核涡旋方向及相应的地磁场方向也会随之改变, 于是就形成地磁极性倒转.这是一个新的思路, 它给地磁极性倒转提出了一个简明的动力机制解释.      

Late Cenozoic paleomagnetism of West Siberian Plate

On the basis of combined (paleomagnetic, lithological, and paleontological) data, a scale of Neogene geomagnetic polarity is proposed for the West Siberian Plate (WSP). It comprises 17 large orthozones of normal and reversed polarity. The scale was compiled by comparing and correlating the Neogene key sections of the Kulunda and Baraba plains, Irtysh regions between Omsk and Pavlodar and near Tara, and Ob’ region near Tomsk. The reliability of paleomagnetic data is confirmed by component analysis of natural remanent magnetization and by a possibility of determining its primary component. In the studied Neogene rocks this is a high-temperature component related to magnetite, hematite, and maghemite, which decays at 420–675 °C. In the period from Early Miocene to Late Pliocene, the Late Cenozoic geomagnetic field reconstructed from NRM vectors for WSP rocks of Neogene age experienced 17 reversals (at the level of orthozone boundaries), with eight regimes of normal polarity and nine regimes of reversed polarity. Comparison of the WSP Neogene scale with Berggren’s scale provided absolute age boundaries of the Late Cenozoic series on the WSP regional stratigraphic scale. The 23.8 Ma boundary between the Oligocene and Miocene is recorded in the regional scale at the sole of the Lyamin beds of the Abrosimovka Formation, at the bottom of Orthochron R₁N₁aq, and the Miocene-Pliocene 5.2 Ma boundary (Chron C3r), in the Novaya Stanitsa Formation (top of the Cherlak beds).     

The Santonian-Campanian reversed polarity magnetozone and the Late Cretaceous magnetostratigraphical time-scale

Magnetostratigraphical data on the Late Cretaceous Magnetic Quiet Zone (normal geomagnetic polarity zone Jalal) are reviewed. This zone was first defined by Shmeleva (1963) in deposits of the Fergana Ridge (U.S.S.R.), and was there found to contain a reversed (R) magnetozone, named the Kuldja, which was traced to various regions of the U.S.S.R. The Kuldja zone corresponds to magnetozone Gubbio A — defined at Gubbio (Italy). Palaeontological data suggest that it spans the boundary between the Santonian and Campanian stages.     

Palaeomagnetism of the Moberly formation, northern Missouri, confirms a regional magnetic datum within the pre-Illinoian glacial sequence of the midcontinental USA

The Moberly formation of northern Missouri, USA includes glacigenic sediment deposited during the second major pre-Illinoian glaciation and is overlain by three younger normal-polarity tills. The Moberly (mostly till) preserves two different magnetic remanences. A detrital remanent magnetization has reversed polarity with shallow (-30 to-40°) inclinations. The shallow inclination is regionally persistent and spans different facies, including those not prone to large inclination error. A secondary overprint of normal polarity is associated with a thin oxidized zone and weakly developed paleosol in the upper portion of the till. This chemical remanent magnetization is distinguished by high coercivities typical of authigenic ferromagnetic minerals and by scattered remanence vectors upon stepwise demagnetization. The secondary normal remanence was likely acquired during a brief interglacial period between deposition of the Moberly formation and the next glaciation. The short interglacial and the shallow inclinations indicate that the glaciation which deposited the Moberly occurred shortly before a major polarity change from reverse to normal, probably the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal.     

Paleontological and magnetostratigraphic data on Upper Cretaceous deposits from borehole no. 8 (Russkaya Polyana District, Southwestern Siberia)

This work presents results of complex research (palynological, macro- and microfaunistic, and paleomagnetic) of Upper Cretaceous deposits, opened by borehole no. 8 in the Russkaya Polyana District (the southern margin of the Omsk Depression, Southwestern Siberia). The paleontological data obtained allowed us to establish the age of deposits. Based on dinocysts, nannoplankton and spore-pollen complexes, the section of borehole no. 8 has been divided into Pokur, Kuznetsovo, Ipatovo, Slavgorod, and Gan’kino Formations. This work gives data on the composition of zonal palynomorphs, nannoplankton, and microfaunistic complexes. Based on the complex data obtained, the magnetostratigraphic section of Upper Cretaceous deposits has been developed. The section consists of three magnetozones: normal and two reversed polarity magnetozones. The Pokur, Kuznetsovo and Ipatovo Formation (Cenomanian-Santonian) belong to the long normal polarity magnetozone; the Slavgorod and Gan’kino Formations (Campanian-Maastrichtian), separated by a stratigraphic break, belong to reversed polarity magnetozones. The magnetostratigraphic section has been correlated with the general magnetostratigraphic and magnetochronological time scales.     

北京怀柔HR_（88－1）钻孔剖面磁性地层学研究

在系统古地磁样品采集、处理和测量的基础上，运用磁性地层学的研究方法，对北京怀柔地区ＨＲ（８８－１）钻孔剖面进行了详细地层划分，分别确定了该区上新统、下更新统、中更新统和上更新统的分布深度及地质年代。     

北京怀柔HR_（88－1）钻孔剖面磁性地层学研究

在系统古地磁样品采集、处理和测量的基础上，运用磁性地层学的研究方法，对北京怀柔地区ＨＲ（８８－１）钻孔剖面进行了详细地层划分，分别确定了该区上新统、下更新统、中更新统和上更新统的分布深度及地质年代。     

Paleomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary intervals,southern Kulunda basin (West Siberia)

The study presents new paleomagnetic data on the Upper Cretaceous and Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary intervals of the southern Kulunda basin (Alei area), which were obtained from core samples collected from a 305-m-thick section penetrated in two wells. The paleomagnetic sections of each well were compiled and correlated based on the characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM). Paleomagnetic, geological, stratigraphic, and paleontological data were used to compile the Upper Cretaceous and Cretaceous-Paleogene magnetostratigraphic section of the southern Kulunda basin. The magnetostratigraphic section consists of five magnetozones, one normal polarity zone, and four reversed polarity zones spanning the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleogene. The lower part of the Gan’kino Horizon, showing normal polarity, forms a single normal polarity magnetozone N. The upper part of the Gan’kino Horizon comprises two reversed polarity magnetozones (R₁km and R₂mt). The Talitsa and Lyulinvor Formations of Lower Paleogene age correspond to two reversed polarity magnetozones (R₁zl and R₂i). The compiled Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleogene magnetostratigraphic section was correlated with the geomagnetic polarity time scale. Two options were considered for correlating the lower normal polarity part of the section with geomagnetic polarity time scale of Gradstein.     

Paleomagnetism of Mongolia

Most Lower Phanerozoic rocks of western Mongolia investigated were repeatedly remagnetized. They demonstrate a secondary magnetization component of normal and reversed polarity. The normal polarity components are related to Mesozoic rock remagnetization. The reversed polarity components were probably formed during the Carboniferous?Permian Superchron of reversed polarity. The analysis of the distribution of the reversed polarity component in the geological structure of Mongolia allows some zoning to be outlined with the defining regions of Mongolia characterized by insignificant rock defamations with intricate post-Permian dislocations and a region marked by rotation of large blocks around the horizontal axis (Khan Khukhei Range). It is assumed that Ordovician rock of western Mongolia contains a magnetization component close to the primary one. If the assumption is valid, the presumably northern paleolatitude derived from this direction corresponds to the interval of 14°?17°?20° (minimum?average?maximum, respectively).     

六盘山群磁性地层年代

六盘山群磁性地层年代研究是认识鄂尔多斯西缘逆冲带和我国现今构造—环境格局形成的关键途径之一。通过对六盘山盆地中北部火石寨剖面厚730m的沉积地层进行高分辨率的古地磁采样测量,发现了11个长的正极性柱和11个短的负极性柱,可与标准极性柱M3n至M—"3r"段进行很好的对比,并与已有的生物化石资料显示的年代对应,从而获得六盘山群的年代约为127—100Ma。     

东沙岛西南泥火山区的地震烃类检测

近年来通过多道地震、浅剖及海底采样调查在东沙岛西南海域发现了大量喷溢甲烷的泥火山,通过研究泥火山可能会发现含气层,具有重大的油气资源指示意义.一条多道地震剖面显示,在该海域一泥火山MV3附近存在一个具有极性反转的埋藏背斜构造,其振幅绝对值随偏移距增大而增大.为探究该背斜是否含有烃类气体,开展了速度分析、AVO反演和频率...     

青藏高原隆升的深层原因及其环境后果

根据青藏高原隆升的数值模型,利用最新地磁极性资料重新计算了高原隆升随时间的变化.在高原的隆升史中,先后有3次达到了H≥Hc(凝结高度),这亦是3个典型的季风气候期.地磁极性强正向期对应着高原的强隆升期,同时也对应着低海平面期;长反向期则伴随着高原的夷平期和高海平面期,但海平面变化比地磁场极性转变平均要晚0.8～1.0MaB.P..