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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN
卷 122, 期 7-8, 页码 1180-1191出版社
GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC
DOI: 10.1130/B26568.1
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Northern Thailand comprises more than 40 Tertiary intermontane basins. These basins, tectonically interpreted as grabens or half grabens, have yielded hominoid fossils and rich Neogene mammal faunas. Relative ages provided by biochronological studies are controversial and neither absolute ages nor correlations with marine deposits are available. A precise temporal framework provided by magnetic-polarity stratigraphy is therefore crucial to understand the evolution of these Southeast Asian mammalian faunas, to estimate the timing and duration of basin formation, and finally to allow correlations with other Neogene hominoid localities of the Old World. A complete magnetostratigraphic study, which significantly extends previous paleomagnetic investigations, has been conducted in the Miocene sequence of Mae Moh Basin, Lampang Province, northern Thailand. Based on the biostratigraphic constraints, the 15 polarity zones recognized from the composite section have been correlated with Chrons C5ACr-C5r.3r, between 14.1 and 12.0 Ma. The present study provides a high-resolution magnetostratigraphic reference for the continental middle Miocene of all Southeast Asia. By correlation with the Miocene sequence of the nearby basin of Chiang Muan, the large-bodied hominoid (Khoratpithecus chiangmuanensis)-bearing levels can be precisely dated between 12.4 and 12.2 Ma.
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