Refining the Early and Middle Eocene Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale: new results from ODP Leg 208 (Walvis Ridge)

Thomas Westerhold1, Ursula Roehl1, Thomas Frederichs2, Steven M Bohaty3, Fabio Florindo4, James C Zachos5, Isabella Raffi6 and Claudia Agnini7, (1)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany, (3)University of Heidelberg, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany, (4)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy, (7)University of Padua, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Padua, Italy