Late cretaceous precessional cycles in double time: A warm-Earth milankovitch response
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-1993
Abstract
Late Cretaceous climatic cycles are reflected in lithological and magnetic variations in carbonate sediments from South Atlantic Deep-Sea Drilling Project site 516F at a paleolatitude of roughly 30°S. Magnetic susceptibility cycles 20 to 60 centimeters in length appear to be controlled by the precession of the equinoxes. Cyclicity is particularly robust within a 24-meter interval in the lower Campanian, where overtone spectral peaks are observed as well as secondary susceptibility maxima within individual precession cycles. One model for this behavior is that sedimentation in the narrow Cretaceous South Atlantic was controlled by equatorial climate dynamics, with the precessional insolation signal rectified by the large land masses surrounding the ocean basin.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Science
Volume
261
Issue
5127
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Park, J., S. L. D'Hondt, J. W. King, and C. Gibson. "Late cretaceous precessional cycles in double time: A warm-Earth milankovitch response." Science 261, 5127 (1993). doi: 10.1126/science.261.5127.1431.