Abstract
The Maoming Basin is one amongst a group of Cretaceous-Tertiary basins in South China-347 samples were collected from drill cores MR and MB and section MS (110° 54′ E. 21° 45′ N). Most of the lithological units are of Tertiary age. The cores include the Laohuling. Shangcun, Huangniuling and Youganwo formations. The MR core (874m in length) has recorded the polarity history from Normal Zone 18 to Normal Zone 11 on the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale (GPTS). The strata were formed from about 42Ma to 32Ma, that is from Late Eocene to Early Oligocene. A mean sedimentation rate of this stratigraphic column is 8.1 cm/ka.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Alvarez, W., M. A. Arthur, A. G. Fischer, W. Lowrie, G. Napoleone, I. Premoli-Silva, and W. M. Roggenthen, 1977, Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene magnetic stratigraphy at Gubbio, Italy, Type section for the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene Geomagnetic Reversal Time Scale: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., v. 88, p. 383–389.
Cohee, G. V., M. G. Glaessner, and H. D. Hedberg, 1978, Contributions to the geologic time scale, American association of petroleum geologists studies: Geology, v. 6, p. 338.
Lowrie, W. and W. Alvarez, 1981, One hundred million years of geomagnetic polarity: Geology, v. 9, p. 392–397.
Lowrie, W., W. Alvarez, G. Napoleone, K. Perch-Nielsen, I. Premoli-Silva, and M. Toumarkine, 1982, Paleogene magnetic stratigraphy in Umbrian pelagic carbonate rocks, The Confessa sections, Gubbio: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., v. 93, p. 414–432.
Ness, G., S. Levi, and R. Couch, 1980, Marine magnetic anomaly time scales for the Cenozoic and Late Cretaceous, A presis, critique and synthesis: Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, v. 18, p. 753–770.
Poore, R. Z., L. Tauxe, S. F. Percival, Jr. J. L. Labrecque, R. Wright, N. P. Peterson, C. C. Smith, P. Tucker, and K. J. Hsu, 1983, Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic corre lations of the South Atlantic Ocean, DSDP Leg 73: Paleogeogr, Paleoclimat.Paleoecol.,v. 42, p. 127–149.
Tauxe, L., R. Butler, and J. C. Herguera, 1987, Magnetostratigraphy, in pursuit of missing links: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 25, p. 939–950.
Yuan Yuren, Wang Baogui, Tang Xianzan, Lai Xiaoja, Fan Shiqing and Liu Zhongyang, 1992, Cretaceous-Early Tertiary paleolatitude migration in the Sanshui Basin of South China and the evolution of South China Sea: Tropic Oceanology. v. 11, p. 37–44.
Zhao Zikui. Ye Jie, Li Huamei. Zhao Zhenhua and Yah Zheng, 1991, Extinction of dinosaurs at the boundary between Cretaceous and Tertiary in the Nanxiong Basin of Guangdong Province: Vertabrara Palasirtica, v. 29, p. 1–12.
Zhou Mingzheng and Liu Jialong. 1955, A new anosterine turtle from Maoming, Kwangtung (Guangdong): Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 3, p. 275–284.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Junda, W., Huamei, L., Zhaoyu, Z. et al. Magnetostratigraphy of Tertiary rocks from Maoming Basin, Guangdong Province, China. Chin. J. of Geochem. 13, 165–175 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02838516
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02838516