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The Gothenburg Magnetic Excursion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nils-Axel Mörner
Nils-Axel Mörner*
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, University of Stockholm, Box 6801, S-11386 Stockholm, Sweden
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Abstract

The Gothenburg Magnetic Excursion in a broad sense ranges from 13,750 to 12,350 years BP and ends with the Gothenburg Magnetic Flip at 12,400−12,350 years BP (= the Fjärås Stadial in southern Scandinavia) with an equatorial VGP position in the central Pacific. The Gothenburg Magnetic Flip is recorded in five closely dated and mutually correlated cores in Sweden. In all five cores, the inclination is completely reversed in the layer representing the Fjärås Stadial dated at 12,400−12,350 years BP. The cores were taken 160 km apart and represent both marine and lacustrine environments. The Gothenburg Magnetic Flip represents the shortest excursion and the most rapid polar change known at present. It is also hitherto the far best-dated paleomagnetic event. The Gothenburg Magnetic Excursion and Flip are proposed as a standard magnetostatigraphic unit.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , May 1977 , pp. 413 - 427
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University of Washington

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