Reinvestigation of age model for relative paleointensity stack and application to Lake Baikal record

Abstract:

The age model for relative paleointensity stack PISO-1500 (Channell et al., 2009) is based on IODP U1308 from North Atlantic. Channell et al. (2008) developed the age model for U1308 by correlating the benthic oxygen isotope curve with LR04 oxygen isotope stack (Lisiecki&Raymo, 2005). LR04 stack is known as oxygen isotope stack for benthic foraminifarra, whose age model is dependent on ice volume model with a certain time lag. On the other hand, Caballero-Gill et al. (2012) developed an absolute age model based on U-Th dating for stalagmites from China and correlated the oxygen isotope curve with that on planctonic foraminiferra for a deep-sea core from South China Sea. The age model based on absolute dating for stalagmite was then transfered to oxygen isotope curve of benthic forraminiferra for the same core. This enables to provide absolute age model on PISO-1500 for the past 350 kyrs. The resulting modified PISO-1500 was applied on paleomagnetic records from Lake Baikal to provide an age model based on relative paleointensity. Finally, this age model was compared with alternative age model based on correlation of biogenic silica record with insolation at the site (Prokopenko et al., 2006) and the reason for the discrepancy will be discussed.