Age of Matuyama-Brunhes boundary constrained by U-Pb zircon dating of a widespread tephra

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 491-494

  Suganuma, Yusuke ^a,b   Okada, Makoto ^c   Horie, Kenji ^a,b,d   Kaiden, Hiroshi ^a,b   Takehara, Mami ^a,e   Senda, Ryoko ^d   Kimura, Jun Ichi ^d   Kawamura, Kenji ^a,b,d   Haneda, Yuki ^c   Kazaoka, Osamu ^f   Head, Martin J ^g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Research Institute of Environmental Geology   (Japan)

^g BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; ICE; ISOTOPES; LEAD; OXYGEN; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MATUYAMA-BRUNHES BOUNDARIES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; UPB ZIRCON AGE (SHRIMP);

SEDIMENTS;

BRUNHES CHRON; CHRONOLOGY; FOREARC BASIN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MATUYAMA CHRON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; TEPHRA; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

JAPAN;

EID: 84929616855     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36625.1     Document Type: Article

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