High-resolution evidence for dynamic transitional geomagnetic field behaviour from a Miocene reversal, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Roberts, Andrew, Bakrania, Anisch, Florindo, Fabio, Rowan, Christopher J, Fielding, Christopher, Powell, Ross
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Terra Scientific Publishers
• Subjects: Keywords: glaciomarine deposit; magnetic field; magnetic reversal; magnetic susceptibility; Miocene; paleomagnetism; remanent magnetization; sediment core; Antarctica; East Antarctica; McMurdo Sound; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean Antarctica; Geomagnetic field behaviour; Glacial processes; Polarity reversal; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/20194; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/20194/5/High-resolution_Roberts.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/20194/7/01_Roberts_High-resolution_evidence_for_2007.pdf.jpg

We report a high-resolution record of a Miocene polarity transition (probably the Chron C6r-C6n transition) from glacimarine sediments in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica, which is the first transition record reported from high southern latitudes. The