Holocene paleomagnetic records from the St. Lawrence Estuary, eastern Canada: centennial- to millennial-scale geomagnetic modulation of cosmogenic isotopes

被引:135
作者
St-Onge, G
Stoner, JS
Hillaire-Marcel, C
机构
[1] Univ Quebec, Ctr Rech Geochim & Geodynam, Geotop, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada
[2] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Geol, Davis, CA 95616 USA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
paleomagnetism; paleointensity; secular variations; Holocene; cosmogenic isotopes;
D O I
10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00079-7
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
Two long Holocene piston cores (MD99-2220 and MD99-2221) were raised from the St. Lawrence Estuary, eastern Canada because of the expanded Holocene sediment sequence this location provides. A u-channel-based paleomagnetic study, supported by an accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) C-14 chronology, rock-magnetic and sedimentological data, indicates that these sediments provide a paleomagnetic directional secular variation (PSV) and relative paleointensity (RPI) proxy records for the last similar to8500 cal. BP. Sedimentation rates vary from similar to1.2 to 4.2 m/kyr. Comparison of inclination and declination features with other North American Holocene PSV records are generally consistent and temporal offsets are within chronological uncertainties. The normalized natural remanent magnetization intensity record, a RPI proxy, from the postglacial sediments of core 2220 compares favorably with North American and European Holocene RPI records at millennial and even some centennial timescales. Comparisons between core 2220 RPI proxy and the Be-10 flux record from the Greenland Summit (GISP2) ice core [Finkel and Nishiizumi, J. Geophys. Res. 102 (1997) 26699-26706] and a C-14 production rate record [Bond et al., Science 294 (2001) 2130-2136] suggest that geomagnetic modulation may control the millennial- and even some centennial-scale variability within cosmogenic isotope records. This implies that the core 2220 RPI record reflects changes in global-scale geomagnetic field at these timescales. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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