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Magnetic stratigraphy of the Ordovician in the lower reach of the Kotuy River: the age of the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum and the rate of geomagnetic reversals on the eve of the superchron

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Until recently, the existing data prevented the geophysicists from accurately dating the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum, which outcrops in the middle reach of the Kotuy River, constraining the time of its formation to a wide interval from the end of the Late Cambrian to the beginning of the Silurian. The obtained paleomagnetic data unambiguously correlate the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum to the Nyaian regional stage and constrain its formation, at least a considerable part of it, by the Tremadocian. This result perfectly agrees with the data on the Bysy-Yuryakh conodonts studied in this work and yields a spectacular example of the successful application of paleomagnetic studies in solving important tasks of stratigraphy and, correspondingly, petroleum geology. Within the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum, we revealed a large normal-polarity interval corresponding to the long (>1 Ma) period when the geomagnetic reversals were absent. This result, in combination with the data for the Tremadocian and Middle–Upper Cambrian sequences of the other regions, indicates that (1) the rate of occurrence of the geomagnetic reversals on the eve of the Ordovician Moyero superchron of reversed polarity was at most one reversal per Ma; (2) the superchron does not switch on instantaneously but is preceded by a certain gradual change in the operation conditions of the dynamo mechanism which, inter alia, manifests itself by the reduction of the frequency of geomagnetic reversals with the approach of the superchron. This finding supports the views according to which a process preparing the establishment of the superchrons takes place at the core–mantle boundary.

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  1. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 123242, Russia

    V. E. Pavlov, R. V. Veselovskiy, A. V. Latyshev & A. M. Fetisova

  2. Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, 420111, Russia

    V. E. Pavlov

  3. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute, St. Petersburg, 199106, Russia

    T. Yu. Tolmacheva & I. V. Bigun

  4. Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    R. V. Veselovskiy, A. V. Latyshev & A. M. Fetisova

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Original Russian Text © V.E. Pavlov, T.Yu. Tolmacheva, R.V. Veselovskiy, A.V. Latyshev, A.M. Fetisova, I.V. Bigun, 2017, published in Fizika Zemli, 2017, No. 5, pp. 89–100.

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Pavlov, V.E., Tolmacheva, T.Y., Veselovskiy, R.V. et al. Magnetic stratigraphy of the Ordovician in the lower reach of the Kotuy River: the age of the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum and the rate of geomagnetic reversals on the eve of the superchron. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 53, 702–713 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351317050093

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