Magnetic properties of maar lake sediments from Otago, New Zealand

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Hauptverfasser: Fox, Bethany R Storrs, Wartho, Jo-Anne, Wilson, Gary S, Lee, Daphne E, Nelson, Faye E, Kaulfuss, Uwe
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author Fox, Bethany R Storrs
Wartho, Jo-Anne
Wilson, Gary S
Lee, Daphne E
Nelson, Faye E
Kaulfuss, Uwe
author_facet Fox, Bethany R Storrs
Wartho, Jo-Anne
Wilson, Gary S
Lee, Daphne E
Nelson, Faye E
Kaulfuss, Uwe
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents Foulden Maar is a highly resolved maar lake deposit from the South Island of New Zealand comprising laminated diatomite punctuated by numerous diatomaceous turbidites. Basaltic clasts found in debris flow deposits at the base of the cored sedimentary sequence yielded two new 40Ar/39Ar dates of 24.51±0.24 Ma and 23.38±0.24 Ma (2sigma). The younger date agrees within error with a previously published 40Ar/39Ar date of 23.17±0.19 Ma from a basaltic dyke adjacent to the maar crater. The diatomite is inferred to have been deposited over several tens of thousands of years in the latest Oligocene/earliest Miocene, and may have overlapped with the period of rapid glaciation and subsequent deglaciation of Antarctica known as the Mi-1 event. Sediment magnetic properties and SEM measurements indicate that the magnetic signal is dominated by pseudo-single domain pyrrhotite. The most likely source of detrital pyrrhotite is schist country rock fragments from the inferred tephra ring created by the phreatomagmatic eruption that formed the maar. Variations in magnetic concentration and lamina thickness indicate a decrease in erosional input and increase in diatom productivity throughout the depositional period, suggesting a long-term (tens of thousands of years) climatic change in New Zealand in the latest Oligocene/earliest Miocene.
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spellingShingle Magnetic properties of maar lake sediments from Otago, New Zealand
Fox, Bethany R Storrs
Wartho, Jo-Anne
Wilson, Gary S
Lee, Daphne E
Nelson, Faye E
Kaulfuss, Uwe
DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; FH2; Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand
Foulden Maar is a highly resolved maar lake deposit from the South Island of New Zealand comprising laminated diatomite punctuated by numerous diatomaceous turbidites. Basaltic clasts found in debris flow deposits at the base of the cored sedimentary sequence yielded two new 40Ar/39Ar dates of 24.51±0.24 Ma and 23.38±0.24 Ma (2sigma). The younger date agrees within error with a previously published 40Ar/39Ar date of 23.17±0.19 Ma from a basaltic dyke adjacent to the maar crater. The diatomite is inferred to have been deposited over several tens of thousands of years in the latest Oligocene/earliest Miocene, and may have overlapped with the period of rapid glaciation and subsequent deglaciation of Antarctica known as the Mi-1 event. Sediment magnetic properties and SEM measurements indicate that the magnetic signal is dominated by pseudo-single domain pyrrhotite. The most likely source of detrital pyrrhotite is schist country rock fragments from the inferred tephra ring created by the phreatomagmatic eruption that formed the maar. Variations in magnetic concentration and lamina thickness indicate a decrease in erosional input and increase in diatom productivity throughout the depositional period, suggesting a long-term (tens of thousands of years) climatic change in New Zealand in the latest Oligocene/earliest Miocene.
title Magnetic properties of maar lake sediments from Otago, New Zealand
topic DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; FH2; Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.834782