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A Holocene palaeomagnetic secular variation record from Lake Pupuke, New Zealand

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Pages 582-594 | Received 27 Apr 2021, Accepted 17 Sep 2021, Published online: 11 Oct 2021
 

ABSTRACT

Palaeomagnetic records from three cores of lake sediment have been merged, producing a new Holocene geomagnetic secular variation record for northern New Zealand. The cores are from Lake Pupuke, a maar lake in Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF). They contain tephra from Rangitoto Volcano (530 ± 10 yr BP), Taupō (1718 ± 10 yr BP), Tūhua/Mayor Island (7637 ± 100 yr BP) and Rotomā tephra from Ōkataina Volcanic Centre (9423 ± 120 yr BP). These tephra dates are supplemented by selected radiocarbon age estimates. The cores were correlated using tephra and fine-scale variations in magnetic susceptibility. The natural remanent magnetisation is strong, stable and carried by fine-grained titanomagnetite from AVF’s basaltic volcanoes. The resulting palaeosecular variation (PSV) record spans from 10,000 to 1500 yr BP. It shows well-defined, millennial-scale swings in direction between 10,000 and 8000 yr BP and between 4000 and 1500 yr BP, while between 8000 and 4000 yr BP variations are of higher frequency and lower amplitude and centre on the geocentric axial dipole field direction. This is in excellent agreement with published PSV records from Mavora Lakes, 1000 km further south, indicating the regional nature of PSV – resulting from broad-scale changes in the circulation of conducting iron-rich fluid of Earth’s outer core.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the help of Drs James Shulmeister, Paul Augustinus, Phil Shane, Malcolm Ingham and Jim Neale in the 2002 coring expedition to Lake Pupuke. This study was originally part of the Palaeoclimates Auckland Maars project led by James Shulmeister. Prof Ken Verosub kindly provided access to the palaeomagnetism laboratory at UC Davis, where the U-channel samples from cores PUKE 2 and 4 were measured. Natalie Robinson completed a BSc Honours project at Victoria University of Wellington in 2002, during which she carried out measurements on the discrete samples from core PUKE 6. We thank Christian Ohneiser and an anonymous reviewer for suggestions which enabled us to improve the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The composite Lake Pupuke declination and inclination record shown in is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16657003.v1.

Additional information

Funding

Support from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund grant number VUW 1101] has enabled the completion of the project.

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