Suto, Itsuki et al. (2002): Diatom biostratigraphy of the middle Miocene marine sequence of the Ayukawa section in the Fujioka area, Gunma Prefecture, central Japan, with special reference to the correlation between the diatom biohorizon D55 and an (super 40) Ar- (super 39) Ar age

Leg/Site/Hole:
ODP 145
ODP 145 887
Identifier:
2004-047317
georefid

Creator:
Suto, Itsuki
University of Tsukuba, Institute of Geoscience, Ibaraki, Japan
author

Takahashi, Masaki
Geological Survey of Japan, Japan
author

Yanagisawa, Yukio
author

Identification:
Diatom biostratigraphy of the middle Miocene marine sequence of the Ayukawa section in the Fujioka area, Gunma Prefecture, central Japan, with special reference to the correlation between the diatom biohorizon D55 and an (super 40) Ar- (super 39) Ar age
2002
Chishitsugaku Zasshi = Journal of the Geological Society of Japan
Nippon Chishitsugaku Gakkai, Tokyo, Japan
108
11
746-760
Marine diatoms were examined for the 245 meter-thick Middle Miocene sequence (the Haraichi and Itahana Formations) exposed along the Ayukawa River in the Fujioka area. Gunma Prefecture, central Japan. The sequence is correlative with the Denticulopsis praedimorpha Zone (NPD 5B) and the Thalassiosira yabei Zone (NPD 5C) of Yanagisawa and Akiba (1998). The last common occurrence (LCO) of D. praedimorpha (D55), a biohorizon which defines the NPD 5B/5C boundary, is recognized between 1 and 3 meters above the Baba Tuff Bed in the upper Haraichi Formation. The numerical age of the biohorizon D55 can be regarded as same as the (super 40) Ar- (super 39) Ar age of the Baba Tuff Bed (11.28+ or -0.08 Ma), because of a high accumulation rate (ca. 35-39 cm/1,000 yr.). This age is about 0.2 Ma younger than the magnetostratigraphically estimated age for D55 at ODP Site 887 and 884 in the high latitude North Pacific. The direct relationship between the D55 biohorizon with high-resolution radiometric age should give important constraints on refining a global geologic time scale for the Miocene interval.
Japanese
Serial
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:35.1000
West:139.0200East: 139.0300
South:35.0000

Stratigraphy; algae; Ar/Ar; Asia; Ayukawa Japan; Baba Tuff; Cenozoic; central Japan; correlation; Denticulopsis; diatoms; Far East; Fujioka Japan; Gumma Japan; Haraichi Formation; Honshu; Japan; Koizumia; Leg 145; microfossils; middle Miocene; Miocene; Neogene; Nitzschia; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP Site 887; Plantae; sequence stratigraphy; Tertiary; Thalassiosira; Tomioka Group;

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