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Volume 59 Supplement 7

Special Issue: Perspectives of Geomagnetism: Geodynamo, Paleomagnetism, and Rock magnetism—Tribute to Prof. Masaru Kono

Early Miocene magnetostratigraphy and a new palaeomagnetic pole position from New Zealand

Earth, Planets and Space volume 59, pages 841–851 (2007)Cite this article

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We report palaeomagnetic results from a 26.5 m sequence of early Miocene sediments in NW Nelson, New Zealand. Analysis of the strong, stable characteristic component of natural remanent magnetization has yielded an important record of the part of Chron 5 from ca. 18.5 to 16.5 Ma, including positive identification of the cryptochron or “tiny wiggle” C5Dr-1, and a pole position ([{«mbda _k} = {78.4^ circ }]; [{☎i _p} = {283.0^ circ }]; dp = 2.2°; dm = 2.8°) for NW Nelson that is indistinguishable from the contemporaneous published pole for the Australian Plate. We infer that this portion of NW Nelson has undergone negligible rotation with respect to the main part of the Australian Plate over the past 17.5 Myr.

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  1. Daniel M. Michalk

    Present address: GeoForschungszentrumPotsdam, D-14473, Potsdam, Germany

  2. Jan O. Walbrecker

    Present address: ETH Zurich, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland

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  1. School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand

    Gillian M. Turner

  2. School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand

    Daniel M. Michalk & Jan O. Walbrecker

  3. GNS Science, P.O. Box 30368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Hugh E. G. Morgans

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Turner, G.M., Michalk, D.M., Morgans, H.E.G. et al. Early Miocene magnetostratigraphy and a new palaeomagnetic pole position from New Zealand. Earth Planet Sp 59, 841–851 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352746

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