Palaeomagnetic correlation and dating of Plio/Pleistocene sediments at the southern margins of the North Sea Basin

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-77

  Maher, Barbara A ^a   Hallam, D F ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Pleistocene sediments; Palaeomagnetism

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 13244279778     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.890     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Aguirre E, Pasini G. 1985. The Plio-Pleistocene boundary. Episodes 8: 116-120.
2. Austin TJF. 1990. Palaeomagnetic results from Little Oakley. In Bridgland DR, Gibbard PL, Preece RC. The geology and significance of the interglacial sediments at Little Oakley, Essex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 328: 307-339.
3. Banham PH, Gibbard PL, Lunkka JP, Parfitt SA, Preece RC, Turner C. 2001. A critical assessment of 'A new glacial stratigraphy for Eastern England'. Quaternary Newsletter 93: 5-14.
4. Beck RB, Funnell BM, Lord AR. 1972. Correlation of Lower Pleistocene Crag at depth in Suffolk. Geological Magazine 109: 137-139.
5. Bowen DQ (ed.). 1999. A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society of London Special Report 23.
6. Bridgland DR. 1988. The Pleistocene fluvial stratigraphy and palaeogeography of Essex. Proceedings of the Geological Association 99: 291-314.
7. Bridgland DR. 1994. Quaternary of the Thames. Geological Conservation Review Series 7. Chapman & Hall: London.
8. Bridgland DR, Gibbard PL. 1990. Ardleigh (Martell's Quarry) TM 053280. In The Cromer Symposium Field Excursion Guide Book, Turner C (ed.). Symposium of European Quaternary Stratigraphy/Quaternary Research Association: Cambridge; 57-62.
9. Bridgland DR, Gibbard PL, Preece RC. 1990. The geology and significance of the interglacial sediments at Little Oakley, Essex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B, 328: 307-339.
10. Bristow CR. 1983. The stratigraphy and structure of the Crag of mid-Suffolk, England. Proceedings of the Geological Association 94: 1-12.
11. Cameron TDJ, Bonny AP, Gregory DM, Harland R. 1984. Lower Pleistocene dinoflagellate cyst, foraminiferal and pollen assemblages in four boreholes in the southern North Sea. Geological Magazine 121 85-97.
12. de Jong J. 1988. Climatic variability during the past three million years, as indicated by vegetational evolution in northwest Europe and with emphasis on data from The Netherlands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 318: 603-617.
13. Funnell BM. 1995. Global sea-level and the (pen)-insularity of late Cenozoic Britain. In Island Britain, Preece RC (ed.), Geological Society of London Special Publication No. 96, 3-13.
14. Funnell BM. 1996. Plio-Pleistocene palaeogeography of the southern North Sea Basin. Quaternary Science Reviews 15: 391-405.
15. Funnell BM, Pearson I. 1989. Holocene sedimentation on the North Norfolk barrier coast in relation to relative sea-level change. Journal of Quaternary Science 4: 25-36.
16. Gibbard PL. 1999. The Thames Valley, its tributary valley and their former courses. In A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles, Bowen DQ (ed.), Geological Society of London Special Publication No. 23, 45-58.
17. Gibbard PL, Zalaseiwicz JA. 1988. Pliocene-Middle Pleistocene of East Anglia Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association: Cambridge.
18. Gibbard PL, et al. 1991. Early and early Middle Pleistocene correlations in the southern North Sea basin. Quaternary Science Reviews 10: 23-52.
19. Gibbard PL, Allen P, Field MF, Hallam DF. 1996. Early Middle Pleistocene deposits at Great Blakenham, Suffolk, England. Quaternary Science Reviews 15: 413-424.
20. Gibbard PL, Zalaseiwicz JA, Mathers SJ. 1998. Stratigraphy of the marine Plio-Pleistocene Crag deposits of East Anglia. Mededelingen Nederlands Institut voor Toegpaste Geowetenschappen TNO. The Dawn of the Quaternary. Proceedings SEQS-EuroMam Symposium 1996, 239-262.
21. Hallam DF, Maher BA. 1994. A record of reversed polarity carried by the iron sulphide, greigite in British early Pleistocene sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 121: 71-80.
22. Hallam DF, Maher BA. 2005. Magnetic carriers and remanence mechanisms in magnetite-poor sediments of Pleistocene age, southern North Sea margin. Journal of Quaternary Science 20: 79-94.
23. Hamblin RJO, Moorlock BSP, Rose J. 2000. A new glacial stratigraphy for eastern England. Quaternary Newsletter 92: 35-43.
24. Harland R, Bonny AP, Hughes MJ, Morigi AN. 1991. The Lower Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Ormesby Borehole, Norfolk, England. Geological Magazine 128: 647-660.
25. Hilgen FJ. 1991. Astronomical calibration of Gauss to Matuyama sapropels in the Mediterranean and implications for the Geomagnetic Polarity Timescale. Earth Planetary Science Letters 104: 226-244.
26. Kemp RA. 1985. The Valley Farm Soil in southern East Anglia. In Soils and Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Boardman J (ed.). Wiley: Chichester; 179-196.
27. Kemp RA. 1987. Genesis and environmental significance of a buried Middle Pleistocene soil in eastern England. Geoderma 41: 49-77.
28. Lee JR, Rose J, Hamblin RJO, Moorlock BSP. 2004. Dating the earliest lowland glaciation of eastern England: the pre-Anglian early Middle Pleistocene Happisburgh Glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 1551-1566.
29. Overeem I, Weltje GJ, Bishop-Kay C, Kroonenberg SB. 2002. The Late Cenozoic Eridanos delta system in the southern North Sea Basin: a climate signal in sediment supply? Basin Research 13: 293-312.
30. Preece RC, Parfitt SA. 2000. The Cromer Forest-bed Formation: new thoughts on an old problem. in The Quaternary of Norfolk and Suffolk, Field Guide, Lewis SG, Whiteman CA, Preece RC (eds). Quaternary Research Association: London; 1-27.
31. Ramshaw S. 1992. A Palaeomagnetic Investigation of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene Kesgrave Sands and Gravels, West Runton Freshwater Beds and Easton Bavents Clay of Norfolk and Suffolk. Unpublished dissertation, University of East Anglia: Norwich.
32. Rose J, Allen P, Hey RW. 1976. Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy in southern East Anglia. Nature 263: 492-494.
33. Rose J, Moorlock BSP, Hamblin RJO. 2001. Pre-Anglian fluvial and coastal deposits in Eastern England: lithostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments. Quaternary International 79: 5-22.
34. Skinner AC, Gregory DM. 1983. Quaternary stratigraphy in the northern North Sea. Boreas 12: 145-152.
35. Stoker MS, Skinner AC, Fyfe JA, Long D. 1983. Palaeomagnetic evidence for Early Pleistocene in the Central and northern North Sea. Nature 304: 565-567.
36. Tauxe L, Herbert T, Shackleton NJ, Kok YS. 1996. Astronomical calibration of the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary: consequences for magnetic remanence acquisition in marine carbonates and the Asian loess sequences. Earth Planetary Science Letters 140: 133-146.
37. Thompson R. 1991. Palaeomagnetic dating. In Quaternary Dating Methods-a User's Guide, Smart PL, Frances PD (eds). Quaternary Research Association: Cambridge.
38. Thompson R, Cameron TDJ, Schwartz C, Jensen KA, Maenhaut van Lemberge V, Sha P. 1992. The magnetic properties of Quaternary and Tertiary sediments in the southern North Sea. Journal of Quaternary Science 7: 319-334.
39. Tric E, Laj C, Jehanno C, Valet J-P, Kissel C, Mazaud A, Iaccarino S. 1991. High-resolution record of the upper Olduvai transition from Po Valley (Italy) sediments: support for dipolar transition geometry? Physics Earth Planet International 65: 319-336.
40. van Montfrans HM. 1971 a. Palaeomagnetic dating in the North Sea basin. Thesis, University of Amsterdam, Princo NV: Rotterdam.
41. van Montfrans HM. 1971b. Palaeomagnetic dating in the North Sea Basin. Earth Planetary Science Letters 11: 226-235.
42. West RG. 1980. The Pre-glacial Pleistocene of the Norfolk and Suffolk Coasts. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
43. Whiteman CA. 1992. The palaeogeography and correlation of the pre-Anglian Glaciation terraces of the River Thames in Essex and the London Basin. Proceedings of the Geological Association 103: 37-56.
44. Whiteman CA, Rose J. 1992. Thames river sediments of the British Early and Middle Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 11: 363-375.
45. Zagwijn WH. 1975. Variations in climate as shown by pollen analysis, especially in the Lower Pleistocene of Europe. In Ice Ages, Ancient and Modern, Wright AE, Moseley R (eds). Geophysical Journal Special Issue 6: 137-152.
46. Zagwijn WH. 1985. An outline of the Quaternary stratigraphy of the Netherlands. Geologie en Mijnbouw 64: 17-24.
47. Zagwijn WH, de Jong J. 1984. Die Interglaziale von Bavel und Leerdam und ihre stratigraphische Stellung im niederländischen Fruh-Pleistozän, Mededelingen Rijks Geologische Dienst 37 155-169.
48. Zalasiewicz JA, and nine others. 4988. Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Red Crag and Norwich Crag formations between Aldeburgh and Sizewell, Suffolk, England. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 322: 221-272.
49. Zalasiewicz JA, and eight others. 1991. Age and relationships of the Chillesford Clay (Early Pleistocene: Suffolk, England). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 333: 81-100.
50. Zijderveld JDA, Hilgen FJ, Langereis CG, Verhallen PJJM. 1991. Integrated magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the upper Pliocene-lower Pleistocene from the Monte Singa and Crotone areas in Calabria, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 107: 697-714.