Nuevas acotaciones al alcance del método de datación por análisis de racemización de aminoácidos. Sección de Cuesta Colorada (Almería SE de España)

New data about the age of Cuesta Colorada (Almería, Spain) are presented. Evidency from micropaleontological sampling and new palaeomagnetical studies, allowed us to correlate the almost whole section with the I and II Pliocene Units. An undoubtfull palaeomagnetical reversal found in an intensively...

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Authors: Torres, Trinidad de, Soler, Vicente, Ortiz, José Eugenio, Llamas, F. J., Canoira, L., García de la Morena, M. A., Civis-Llovera, Jorge
Format: article
Publication Date:1999
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repository:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/9893
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9893
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Pliocene
Pleistocene
Palaeomagnetism
Micropalaeontology
Amino acid racemization
Cuesta Colorada
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Summary:New data about the age of Cuesta Colorada (Almería, Spain) are presented. Evidency from micropaleontological sampling and new palaeomagnetical studies, allowed us to correlate the almost whole section with the I and II Pliocene Units. An undoubtfull palaeomagnetical reversal found in an intensively sampled micritic layer, could represent the Causs-Matuyama boundary, confirming the data from amino acid racemization analyses which indicate a wide time span between both the bottom and the top of Cuesta Colorada deposition time. Samples taken from a very deeply excavated road cut allowed very well preserved amino acid and palaeomagnetic samples taking, being possible to enlarge the normal amino acid dating method range which in very favourable conditions could reach the upper part of Lower Pleistocene time