Paleomagnetic Constraint of the Brunhes Age Sedimentary Record From Lake Junín, Peru
© Copyright © 2020 Hatfield, Stoner, Solada, Morey, Woods, Chen, McGee, Abbott and Rodbell. Normalized remanence, a proxy for relative geomagnetic paleointensity, along with radiocarbon and U-Th age constraints, facilitates the generation of a well-constrained chronology for sediments recovered duri...
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| author | Hatfield, Robert G Stoner, Joseph S Solada, Katharine E Morey, Ann E Woods, Arielle Chen, Christine Y Abbott, Mark B Rodbell, Donald T Mcgee, David |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Hatfield, Robert G Stoner, Joseph S Solada, Katharine E Morey, Ann E Woods, Arielle Chen, Christine Y Abbott, Mark B Rodbell, Donald T Mcgee, David |
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| description | © Copyright © 2020 Hatfield, Stoner, Solada, Morey, Woods, Chen, McGee, Abbott and Rodbell. Normalized remanence, a proxy for relative geomagnetic paleointensity, along with radiocarbon and U-Th age constraints, facilitates the generation of a well-constrained chronology for sediments recovered during International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) coring of Lake Junín, Peru. The paleomagnetic record of the ∼88 m stratigraphic section from Lake Junín was studied, and rock magnetic variability constrained, through analysis of 109 u-channel samples and 56 discrete samples. Downcore variations in sediment lithology reflect climate and hydrological processes over glacial-interglacial time frames and these changes are strongly reflected in the bulk magnetic properties. Glacial sediments are characterized by higher detrital silt content, higher magnetic susceptibility and magnetic remanence values, and a magnetic coercivity that is characteristic of ferrimagnetic (titano)magnetite and/or maghemite. Interglacial sediments and low lake-level facies are dominated by carbonate lithologies and/or peat horizons that result in lower magnetic concentration values. Sediments with moderately high Natural Remanent Magnetization (NRM) intensity (>1 × 10–3 A/m) have well resolved component directions and inclination values that vary around geocentric axial dipole expectations. This remanence value can be used as a threshold to filter the lowest quality paleomagnetic data from the record. Normalized NRM intensity values are also sensitive to lithologic variability, but following NRM remanence filtering, only the highest quality ferrimagnetic dominated data are retained which then show no coherence with bulk magnetic properties. Constrained by the existing radiocarbon based chronology over the last 50 kyrs and 18 U-Th age constraints that are restricted to five interglacial sediment packages, filtered normalized remanence parameters compare well with global relative paleointensity stacks, suggesting relative variations in geomagnetic intensity are preserved. By adjusting the existing age-depth model we improve the correlation between the Junín normalized intensity record and a well-dated RPI stack and RPI model. We then incorporate these paleomagnetic tie points with the existing radiometric dates using a modeling approach to assess uncertainty and refine the age-depth model for Lake Junín. In combining relative and radiometric dating, the new age-depth model captures glacial-interglacial variations in sedimentation rate and improves the orbital-scale age model for the sediments accumulated in Lake Junín basin over most of the Brunhes. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1338032024-05-15T09:19:49Z Paleomagnetic Constraint of the Brunhes Age Sedimentary Record From Lake Junín, Peru Hatfield, Robert G Stoner, Joseph S Solada, Katharine E Morey, Ann E Woods, Arielle Chen, Christine Y Abbott, Mark B Rodbell, Donald T Mcgee, David Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences © Copyright © 2020 Hatfield, Stoner, Solada, Morey, Woods, Chen, McGee, Abbott and Rodbell. Normalized remanence, a proxy for relative geomagnetic paleointensity, along with radiocarbon and U-Th age constraints, facilitates the generation of a well-constrained chronology for sediments recovered during International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) coring of Lake Junín, Peru. The paleomagnetic record of the ∼88 m stratigraphic section from Lake Junín was studied, and rock magnetic variability constrained, through analysis of 109 u-channel samples and 56 discrete samples. Downcore variations in sediment lithology reflect climate and hydrological processes over glacial-interglacial time frames and these changes are strongly reflected in the bulk magnetic properties. Glacial sediments are characterized by higher detrital silt content, higher magnetic susceptibility and magnetic remanence values, and a magnetic coercivity that is characteristic of ferrimagnetic (titano)magnetite and/or maghemite. Interglacial sediments and low lake-level facies are dominated by carbonate lithologies and/or peat horizons that result in lower magnetic concentration values. Sediments with moderately high Natural Remanent Magnetization (NRM) intensity (>1 × 10–3 A/m) have well resolved component directions and inclination values that vary around geocentric axial dipole expectations. This remanence value can be used as a threshold to filter the lowest quality paleomagnetic data from the record. Normalized NRM intensity values are also sensitive to lithologic variability, but following NRM remanence filtering, only the highest quality ferrimagnetic dominated data are retained which then show no coherence with bulk magnetic properties. Constrained by the existing radiocarbon based chronology over the last 50 kyrs and 18 U-Th age constraints that are restricted to five interglacial sediment packages, filtered normalized remanence parameters compare well with global relative paleointensity stacks, suggesting relative variations in geomagnetic intensity are preserved. By adjusting the existing age-depth model we improve the correlation between the Junín normalized intensity record and a well-dated RPI stack and RPI model. We then incorporate these paleomagnetic tie points with the existing radiometric dates using a modeling approach to assess uncertainty and refine the age-depth model for Lake Junín. In combining relative and radiometric dating, the new age-depth model captures glacial-interglacial variations in sedimentation rate and improves the orbital-scale age model for the sediments accumulated in Lake Junín basin over most of the Brunhes. 2021-10-27T19:56:44Z 2021-10-27T19:56:44Z 2020 2021-09-17T14:08:22Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133803 en 10.3389/FEART.2020.00147 Frontiers in Earth Science Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Frontiers Media SA Frontiers |
| spellingShingle | Hatfield, Robert G Stoner, Joseph S Solada, Katharine E Morey, Ann E Woods, Arielle Chen, Christine Y Abbott, Mark B Rodbell, Donald T Mcgee, David Paleomagnetic Constraint of the Brunhes Age Sedimentary Record From Lake Junín, Peru |
| title | Paleomagnetic Constraint of the Brunhes Age Sedimentary Record From Lake Junín, Peru |
| title_full | Paleomagnetic Constraint of the Brunhes Age Sedimentary Record From Lake Junín, Peru |
| title_fullStr | Paleomagnetic Constraint of the Brunhes Age Sedimentary Record From Lake Junín, Peru |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paleomagnetic Constraint of the Brunhes Age Sedimentary Record From Lake Junín, Peru |
| title_short | Paleomagnetic Constraint of the Brunhes Age Sedimentary Record From Lake Junín, Peru |
| title_sort | paleomagnetic constraint of the brunhes age sedimentary record from lake junin peru |
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