Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Age of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary in the Vrica section, southern Italy

  • Article
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Abstract

New palaeomagnetic data from the proposed Plio-Pleistocene boundary stratotype section (Vrica section, southern Italy) are presented here in order to improve the correlation of these sediments to the magnetic polarity time scale. If the interpretation preferred here is correct, the boundary falls above the Olduvai normal subchron at approximately 1.6 Myr.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Lyell, C. Principles of Geology 1st edn, Vol 3 (John Murray, London, 1833).

    Google Scholar 

  2. Lyell, C. Pitois-Levranet (Paris, 1839).

    Google Scholar 

  3. Berggren, W. A. & Van Couvering, J. A. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 16, (1974).

  4. Selli, R. et al. Giorn. Geol. 42, 181–204 (1977).

    Google Scholar 

  5. Colalongo, M. L., Pasini, G. & Sartoni, S. Boll. Soc. Paleont. Ital. 20, 99–120 (1981).

    Google Scholar 

  6. Obradovich, J. D., Naeser, C. W., Izett, G. A., Pasini, G. & Bigazzi, G. Nature 298, 55–59 (1982).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Johnson, N. M., Opdyke, N. D. & Lindsay, E. H. Bull. geol. Soc. Am. 86, 5–12 (1975).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Dunlop, D. J. & Stirling, J. M. Geophys. Res. Lett. 4, 163–166 (1977).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. Channell, J. E. T., Freeman, R., Heller, F. & Lowrie, W. Earth planet. Sci. Lett. 58, 189–201 (1982).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. Fisher, R. A. Proc. R. Soc. 217, 295–305 (1953).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. Watson, G. S. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., Geophys. Suppl. 7, 160–161 (1956).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. Nakagawa, H. & Niitsuma, N. EOS 13, 517 (1981).

    Google Scholar 

  13. Mankinen, E. A. & Dalrymple, G. B. J. geophys. Res. 84, 615–626 (1979).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Cati, F. & Borsetti, A. M. Giorn. Geol. 43, 365–384 (1981).

    Google Scholar 

  15. Backman, J., Shackleton, N. J. & Tauxe, L. Nature 304, 156–158 (1983).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  16. Pasini, G. & Colalongo, M. L. Pap. at the XI INQUA Congr. (1982).

  17. LaBrecque, J. L., Kent, D. V. & Cande, S. C. Geology 5, 330–335 (1977).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Author notes

  1. Lisa Tauxe

    Present address: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and Department of Geological Studies, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 10964, USA

    Lisa Tauxe

  2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA

    Neil D. Opdyke

  3. Istituto di Geologia Marina del CNR, Via Zamboni 65, Bologna, Italy

    Giancarlo Pasini

  4. Istituto di Geologia e Paleontologia del' Universitata, Via Zamboni 67, Bologna, Italy

    Carlo Elmi

Authors
  1. Lisa Tauxe
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Neil D. Opdyke
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Giancarlo Pasini
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Carlo Elmi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Tauxe, L., Opdyke, N., Pasini, G. et al. Age of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary in the Vrica section, southern Italy. Nature 304, 125–129 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/304125a0

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/304125a0

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation