- 지자기 방향변화 및 베릴륨 동위원소비를 이용한 북동 적도 태평양 주상시료의 층서확립
- ㆍ 저자명
- 김원년,형기성,공기수,Kim. Wonnyon,Hyeong. Kiseong,Kong. Gee Soo
- ㆍ 간행물명
- Ocean and polar research
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2014년|36권 4호|pp.395-405 (11 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국해양과학기술원
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
A 570 cm-long sediment core was retrieved at $9^{circ}57^{prime}N$ and $131^{circ}42^{prime}W$ in 5,080 m water depth from the northeast equatorial Pacific and its stratigraphy was established with $^{10}Be/^9Be$ and paleomagnetic measurements. Successive AF demagnetization reveals eight geomagnetic field reversals. In the reference geologic time scale, the eight reversal events correspond to an age of about 4.5 Ma. However, $^{10}Be/^9Be$-based age yields 9.5 Ma at a depth of 372 cm. Such a large discrepancy in determined ages is attributed to an extremely low sedimentation rate, 0.4 mm/kyr on average, of the study core and resultant loss or smoothing of geomagnetic fields. The composite age model reveals a wide range in the sedimentation rate - varying from 0.1 to 2.4 mm/kyr. However, the sedimentation rate shows systematic variation depending on sedimentary facies (Unit II and III), which suggests that each lithologic unit has a unique provenance and transport mechanism. At depths of 110-80 cm with a sedimentation rate of about 0.1 mm/kyr, ancient geomagnetic field reversal events of at least a 1.8 Myr time span have not been recorded, which indicates the probable existence of a hiatus in the interval. Such a sedimentary hiatus is observed widely in the deep-sea sediments of the NE equatorial Pacific.