期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
卷 108, 期 1, 页码 267-285出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-018-1653-3
关键词
Magnetic mineralogy; Palaeomagnetic secular variation; Palaeointensity; Late quaternary; Upper Congo deep-sea fan
资金
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [KO2870/4 - 1, NO3334/8 - 1]
- China Scholarship Council
We report here on results of palaeo- and rock magnetic investigations of two sediment cores from the Upper Congo deep-sea fan. The sediments have a high organic content and contain a heterogeneous Fe-mineral assemblage with biogenic magnetite and detrital (Ti-)magnetite as the main magnetic carrier minerals. Pyrite, hematite, and Fe-oxyhydroxides were identified by comparing high-temperature magnetic susceptibility curves with those from Fe-minerals of known composition. According to AMS C-14 dates, the 6.8 m-long profile spans the last 37 kyr. Sediments older than 20 ka are affected by reductive diagenesis that has led to a loss of the fine-grained magnetic mineral fraction. Sediments younger than 20 ka have stable magnetizations. Characteristic remanent magnetization records of inclination and declination were obtained for each core. There is a little agreement between these records, modelled curves, and other sediment records from Equatorial Africa, so no composite record could be established. The cores are not ideal relative palaeointensity recorders and estimates using different normalizers did not yield consistent signals from both cores. Normalization methods used for relative palaeointensity estimation were not developed for sediments that contain large amounts of ultra-fine-grained biogenic magnetite; therefore, the relative palaeointensity estimates should be considered with caution. However, in view of the incoherent picture given by the scarce available palaeointensity information from the region off South-West Africa, the GeoB6517-2 record may provide a tentative relative palaeointensity record for comparison, at least for the past 10 kyr.
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