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Raimund Muscheler

Raimund Muscheler

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Raimund Muscheler

An estimate of post-depositional remanent magnetization lock-in depth in organic rich varved lake sediments

Author

  • Ian Snowball
  • Anette Mellström
  • Emelie Ahlstrand
  • Eeva Haltia-Hovi
  • Andreas Nilsson
  • Wenxin Ning
  • Raimund Muscheler
  • Achim Brauer

Summary, in English

We studied the paleomagnetic properties of relatively organic rich, annually laminated (varved) sediments of Holocene age in Gyltigesjon, which is a lake in southern Sweden. An age-depth model was based on a regional lead pollution isochron and Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon ages of bulk sediments and terrestrial macrofossils, which included a radiocarbon wiggle-matched series of 873 varves that accumulated between 3000 and 2000 Cal a BP (Mellstrom et al., 2013). Mineral magnetic data and first order reversal curves suggest that the natural remanent magnetization is carried by stable single-domain grains of magnetite, probably of magnetosomal origin. Discrete samples taken from overlapping piston cores were used to produce smoothed paleomagnetic secular variation (inclination and declination) and relative paleointensity data sets. Alternative temporal trends in the paleomagnetic data were obtained by correcting for paleomagnetic lock-in depths between 0 and 70 cm and taking into account changes in sediment accumulation rate. These temporal trends were regressed against reference curves for the same region (FENNOSTACK and FENNORPIS; Snowball et al., 2007). The best statistical matches to the reference curves are obtained when we apply lock-in depths of 21-34 cm to the Gyltigesjon paleomagnetic data, although these are most likely minimum estimates. Our study suggests that a significant paleomagnetic lock-in depth can affect the acquisition of post-depositional remanent magnetization even where bioturbation is absent and no mixed sediment surface layer exists. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Department/s

  • Quaternary Sciences

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

264-277

Publication/Series

Global and Planetary Change

Volume

110

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Geology

Keywords

  • Paleomagnetic secular variation
  • Post-depositional remanent
  • magnetization
  • Lock-in depth
  • Varves

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1872-6364