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Geomagnetic polarity epochs: Nunivak Island, Alaska
New paleomagnetic and potassium-argon dating measurements have been made of basalt flows from Nunivak Island, Alaska, with the following results. (1) The best estimate of the age of the Brunhes/Matuyama polarity epoch boundary is found to be 0.694 m.y. (2) The best estimate of the age of the Gauss/Gilbert boundary is 3.32 m.y. (3) Three normally magnetized flows with ages from 0.93 to 0.88 m.y. ar
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A. Cox, G. B. Dalrymple
Geomagnetic polarity zones for icelandic lavas
Analysis of cores collected from a sequence of lavas in Eastern Iceland has made possible an accurate calculation of the average rate of reversal of the Earth's magnetic field.
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P. Dagley, R.L. Wilson, J. M. Ade-Hall, G.P.L. Walker, S.E. Haggerty, T. Sigurgeirsson, N.D. Watkins, P.J. Smith, J. Edwards, R.L. Grasty
Geomagnetic polarity epochs: new data from Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika
The lower lava flow of Bed I in Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika, carries natural remanent magnetization (NRM) having normal polarity. Thermal demagnetization experiments demonstrate the stability of this NRM. Thus the Olduvai geomagnetic polarity event, which was originally named from the upper lava flow in Bed I, is represented in its type locality by two normally magnetized lavas. These lavas have bee
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C. S. Grommé, R. L. Hay
Pliocene geomagnetic polarity epochs
A paleomagnetic and K-Ar dating study of 44 upper Miocene and Pliocene volcanic units from the western United States suggests that the frequency of reversals of the earth's magnetic field during Pliocene time may have been comparable with that of the last 3.6 m.y. Although the data are too limited to permit the formal naming of any new polarity epochs or events, four polarity transitions have been
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G. B. Dalrymple, A. Cox, Richard R. Doell, C. S. Grommé
Geomagnetic polarity epochs: A new polarity event and the age of the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary
Recent paleomagnetic-radiometric data from six rhyolite domes in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico, indicate that the last change in polarity of the earth's magnetic field from reversed to normal (the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary) occurred at about 0.7 million years ago. A previously undiscovered geomagnetic polarity event, herein named the "Jaramillo normal event," occurred about 0.9 million years ago.
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Richard R. Doell, G. B. Dalrymple
Landslides in the vicinity of the Fort Randall Reservoir, South Dakota
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Christopher Forbes Erskine
Geomagnetic polarity epochs
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A. Cox, Richard R. Doell, G. Brent Dalrymple
Preliminary report on the geologic and geophysical investigations of the Loveland Basin landslide, Clear Creek County, Colorado
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Charles Sherwood Robinson, Fitzhugh T. Lee, R. D. Carroll
Preliminary report on landslides in a part of the Orinda Formation, Contra Costa County, California
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Dorothy Hill Radbruch, Louise M. Weiler
Geomagnetic polarity epochs and pleistocene geochronometry
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A. Cox, Richard R. Doell, G. B. Dalrymple
Geomagnetic polarity epochs: Sierra Nevada II
Ten new determinations on volcanic extrusions in the Sierra Nevada with potassium-argon ages of 3.1 million years or less indicate that the remanent magnetizations fall into two groups, a normal group in which the remanent magnetization is directed downward and to the north, and a reversed group magnetized up and to the south. Thermomagnetic experiments and mineralogic studies fail to provide an e
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A. Cox, Richard R. Doell, G. Brent Dalrymple