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500,000-Year Paleomagnetic Record from New Zealand Loess

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Brad Pillans  and
Ian Wright
Brad Pillans
Affiliation:
Research School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
Ian Wright
Affiliation:
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Private Bag, Kilbirnie, Wellington 3, New Zealand
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Abstract

A paleomagnetic record of secular variation has been obtained from a 17.4-m-long core drilled from loess in North Island, New Zealand. Three dated rhyolitic tephra occur in the loess core at depths of 1.5, 3.4,and 13.0 m, with ages of 22,500, ≧42,000, and 370,000 years, respectively. The base of the core is estimated to be 500,000 years old, which makes this the longest continuous loess sequence yet described from the Southern Hemisphere. Two periods of anomalously low inclination in the core are correlated with the Mungo Event (ca. 35,000 years ago) and the Emperor Event (ca. 490,000 years ago); the Blake Event (ca. 115,000 years ago) is not recorded.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , March 1990 , pp. 178 - 187
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University of Washington

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