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Table 1 Mean directions for each unit

From: Paleomagnetic constraint of the age and duration of the Taupō Eruption, New Zealand

Unit

N

Dec

Inc

α95

k

Y7

15

3.0

 − 55.8

2.5

237.2

Y4-upper

7

4.4

 − 55.4

3.3

328.2

Y4-lower

8

7.1

 − 56.2

1.7

1102.9

Y3

9

338.9

 − 56.8

5.8

78.9

Y1

8

3.9

 − 53.4

2.7

426.8

Y1, Y4, Y7 (overall mean)

38

4.3

 − 55.3

1.3

335.6

Y7 (lithic fragments)a

44b

3.9

 − 52.2

2.4

74.6c

X (Mapara tephra)

9

358.8

 − 54.3

2.9

2.9

  1. aData from McClelland et al. (2004) and calculated by Greve and Turner (2017)
  2. bNumber of individual site mean directions
  3. cCalculated by this study