Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc
E-ISSN： 2156-2202|101|B4|8025-8042
ISSN： 0148-0227
Source： Journal Of Geophysical Research, Vol.101, Iss.B4, 1996-04, pp. : 8025-8042
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Abstract
A long core (1110 m) drilled at Montcornet (northeastern Paris Basin) provides early Jurassic magnetostratigraphic data coupled with biochronological control. About 600 paleomagnetic samples were obtained from a 148‐m‐thick series of Hettangian and Sinemurian rocks. A composite demagnetization using thermal (up to 300°C) followed by alternating field technique (up to 100 mT) is used to separate the magnetic components. A low unblocking temperature component (<250°C) with an inclination of about 65° is interpreted as a present‐day field overprint. The characteristic remanent component with both normal and reversed antipodal directions is then isolated between 5 and 70 mT. Eighty‐one polarity intervals are recognized in this study. The higher reversal frequency of the late Hettangian/early Sinemurian time interval contrasts with a lower reversal rate observed in the rest of the early Liassic. A rough mean estimate of about 5 reversals/m.y. can be proposed for the earliest Jurassic. These results represent a significant contribution to the magnetic polarity reversal timescale for a time interval hitherto poorly known and add to the magnetic reversal frequency curve of the last 350 m.y.
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