Magnetostratigraphy of the Toarcian Stage (Lower Jurassic) of the Llanbedr (Mochras Farm) Borehole, Wales: basis for a global standard and implications for volcanic forcing of palaeoenvironmental change

Xu, Weimu; Mac Niocaill, Conall; Ruhl, Micha; Jenkyns, Hugh C.; Riding, James B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5529-8989; Hesselbo, Stephen P.. 2018 Magnetostratigraphy of the Toarcian Stage (Lower Jurassic) of the Llanbedr (Mochras Farm) Borehole, Wales: basis for a global standard and implications for volcanic forcing of palaeoenvironmental change. Journal of the Geological Society, 175 (4). 594-604. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-120

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Abstract/Summary

The Lower Jurassic Toarcian Stage (c. 183–174 Ma) is marked by one of the largest global exogenic carbon-cycle perturbations of the Phanerozoic, which is associated with the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE; c. 183 Ma). Climatic and environmental change at the T-OAE is reasonably well constrained in the marine realm, with marine anoxic or euxinic conditions developing locally across both hemispheres, at the same time as the T-OAE negative carbon-isotope excursion. However, high-resolution stratigraphic comparison between different palaeo-ocean basins and with the continental realm can be complicated. Palaeomagnetic reversals can provide a precise and accurate stratigraphic correlation tool between marine and continental sedimentary archives, and even between sedimentary and igneous successions. Here, we present a high-resolution magnetostratigraphic record for the Toarcian Stage in the biostratigraphically complete and expanded Llanbedr (Mochras Farm) Borehole, Cardigan Bay Basin, Wales. This study provides the first geomagnetic polarity reversal scale that is integrated with high-resolution biostratigraphy and carbon-isotope stratigraphy for the entire Toarcian Stage. This stratigraphic framework also provides a new, precise correlation with the basalt lava sequence of the Karoo–Ferrar Large Igneous Province, linking the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and T-OAE climatic and environmental perturbations directly to this episode of major volcanic activity. Supplementary material: Details of the palaeomagnetic data and dip direction are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4052720

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-120
ISSN:	0016-7649
Date made live:	18 Jun 2018 14:49 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520305

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