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Perhaps the most powerful application of these data is to determine the rate at which the sediment accumulated. This is accomplished by plotting the age of each reversal (in millions of years ago) vs. the stratigraphic level at which the reversal is found (in meters). This provides the rate in meters
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passed through the generation window and hydrocarbon migration began. Because the ages of cross-cutting trapping structures can usually be determined from magnetostratigraphic data, a comparison of these ages will assist reservoir geologists in their determination of whether or not a play is likely
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Subdivisions in the sequencies also have specific nomenclature so C8n.2n is the second oldest normal polarity subchron comprising normal-polarity Chron C8n and the youngest cryptochron, the
Emperor cryptochron, is named C1n-1. Certain terms in the literature such as M-1r to describe a postulated
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It was called a "polarity subchron" when the interval is less than 200,000 years long, although the term was redefined in 2020 to an approximate duration between 10,000 to 100,000 years and polarity chron for an approximate duration between 100,000 years and a million years. Other terms used are
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was in predominantly a "normal" or "reversed" position. Chrons are numbered in order starting from today and increasing in number into the past. As well as a number, each chron is divided into two parts, labelled "n" and "r", thereby showing the position of the field's polarity. Chrons are also
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Because the polarity of a stratum can only be normal or reversed, variations in the rate at which the sediment accumulated can cause the thickness of a given polarity zone to vary from one area to another. This presents the problem of how to correlate zones of like polarities between different
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event that has been correlated elsewhere with isotopic ages. With the aid of the independent isotopic age or ages, the local magnetostratigraphic column is correlated with the Global
Magnetic Polarity Time Scale (GMPTS).
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to date. Accordingly the main C polarity chrons series extend backwards from the current C1n, commonly termed
Brunhes, with the most recent transition at C1r, commonly termed Matuyama, at 0.773
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Siwalik fluvial sequence (~6000 m thick, ~20 to 0.5 Ma) represents a good example of magnetostratigraphy application in resolving confusion in continental fossil based records.
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Megachron for a duration between 10 and 10 years, Superchron for a duration between 10 and 10 years and
Crytochron for a duration less than 3Ă—10 years.
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Superchron termed C34n which on age calibration occurred at 120.964 Ma and lasted to Chron C33r at 83.650 Ma that defined the
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