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Spell & McDougall 1992
Spell, T.L. and McDougall, I. (1992). Revisions to the age of the Brunhes - Matuyama Boundary and the Pleistocene geomagnetic polarity timescale. Geophysical Research Letters 19: doi: 10.1029/92GL01125. issn: 0094-8276.

The currently referenced age of 730 ka for the Brunhes-Matuyama (B-M) geomagnetic polarity boundary [Mankinen and Dalrymple, 1979> is based largely on K-Ar and paleomagnetic data from postcollapse rhyolites in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico [Doell and Dalrymple, 1966; Doell et al., 1968>. Dating of sanidine from Valles rhyolites by the 40Ar/39Ar laser fusion technique indicates that samples critical to defining the B-M boundary are up to 90 ka older than previously thought. The new data combined with earlier results yield an age for the B-M boundary of 780¿10 ka. 40Ar/39Ar ages from other samples suggest the Jaramillo normal polarity subchron extended from 1010 to 915 ka. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1992

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Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, Reversals (process, time scale, magnetostratigraphy), Marine Geology and Geophysics, Geomagnetism, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Rock Chemistry, Geochronology (radiometric)
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Geophysical Research Letters
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