HR: 08:51h
AN: GP51A-04    [Abstracts]
TI: Mono Lake Excursion Reviewed
AU: * Liddicoat, J C
EM: jliddico@barnard.edu
AF: Barnard College, Department of Environmental Science, New York, NY 10027, United States
AU: Coe, R S
EM: rcoe@pmc.ucsc.edu
AF: University of California, Santa Cruz, Earth Sciences Department, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States
AB: The Mono Lake Excursion as recorded in the Mono Basin, CA, has an older part that is about negative 30 degrees inclination and about 300 degrees declination during low relative field intensity. Those paleomagnetic directions are closely followed by greater than 80 degrees positive inclination and east declination of about 100 degrees during higher relative field intensity. A path of the Virtual Geomagnetic Poles (VGPs) for the older part followed from old to young forms a large clockwise loop that reaches 35 degrees N latitude and is centered at about 35 degrees E longitude. That loop is followed by a smaller one that is counterclockwise and centered at about 70 degrees N latitude and 270 degrees E longitude (Denham & Cox, 1971; Denham, 1974; Liddicoat & Coe, 1979). The Mono Lake Excursion outside the Mono Basin in western North America is recorded as nearly the full excursion at Summer Lake, OR (Negrini et al., 1984), and as the younger portion of steep positive inclination/east declination in the Lahontan Basin, NV. The overall relative field intensity during the Mono Lake Excursion in the Lahontan Basin mirrors very closely the relative field intensity in the Mono Basin (Liddicoat, 1992, 1996; Coe & Liddicoat, 1994). Using 14C and 40Ar/39Ar dates (Kent et al., 2002) and paleoclimate and relative paleointensity records (Zimmerman et al., 2006) for the Mono Lake Excursion in the Mono Basin, it has been proposed that the Mono Lake Excursion might be older than originally believed and instead be the Laschamp Excursion at about 40,000 yrs B.P. (Guillou et al., 2004). On the contrary, we favor a younger age for the Mono Lake Excursion, about 32,000 yrs B.P., using the relative paleointensity in the Mono Basin and Lahontan Basin and 14C dates from the Lahontan Basin (Benson et al., 2002). The age of about 32,000 yrs B.P. is also in accord with the age (32,000- 34,000 yrs B.P.) reported by Channell (2006) for the Mono Lake Excursion at ODP Site 919 in the Irminger Basin in the North Atlantic Ocean, which contains as well an excursion lower in the core at about 40,000 yrs B.P. that he identifies as the Laschamp Excursion. The paths of VGPs for the Irminger Basin and the younger half of the Mono Lake Excursion in the Mono Basin are similar in that they are counterclockwise loops and nearly adjacent to each other, and quite different from the VGP path for the Laschamp Excursion.
DE: 1513 Geomagnetic excursions
DE: 1521 Paleointensity
DE: 1522 Paleomagnetic secular variation
SC: Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism [GP]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly