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American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Research Letters, 20(42), p. 8367-8372, 2015

DOI: 10.1002/2015gl065394

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Nature of the Jurassic Magnetic Quiet Zone: THE JURASSIC MAGNETIC QUIET ZONE

Journal article published in 2015 by Masako Tominaga, Maurice A. Tivey ORCID, William W. Sager
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The nature of the Jurassic Quiet Zone (JQZ), a region of low amplitude oceanic magnetic anomalies, has been a long-standing debate with implications for the history and behavior of the Earth's geomagnetic field and plate tectonics. To understand the origin of the JQZ, we studied high-resolution sea-surface magnetic anomalies from the Hawaiian magnetic lineations and correlated them with the Japanese magnetic lineations. The comparison shows: (i) excellent correlation of anomaly shapes from M29 to M42; (ii) remarkable similarity of anomaly amplitude envelope, which decreases back in time from M19 to M38, with a minimum at M41, then increases back in time from M42; and (iii) refined locations of pre-M25 lineations in the Hawaiian lineation set. Based on these correlations, our study presents evidence of a regional and possible globally coherent pre-M29 magnetic anomalies in the JQZ and a robust extension of Hawaiian isochrons back to M42 in the Pacific crust.