Dating stalagmite usi ng paleomagnetic methods is still in its early stage of development. Questions still remain regarding the nature and origin of the magnetic carriers and the reliability of the natural remanent magnetization preserved within the thin carbonat ed laminations of stalagmites. Here we apply high - resolution rock - and paleo - magnetic methods on two (altered and preserved) stalagmites in order...
The KPB crisis is one of the major biological crises that affected the Earth at Phanerozoic times. There is still an acrimonious debate on the nature and origin of this mass extinction: proponents of the idea that large bolide impacts caused most of the Phanerozoic mass extinctions are opposed to those who favoured a terrestrial origin linked to continental flood basalt eruptions of the Deccan Traps. The major ...
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