TITLE:
Comparison of the Palaeomagnetic Parameters of Non-Marine Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary Sediments in Dorset (SW England), Hebei and Liaoning (NE China)—A Preliminary Study
AUTHORS:
Petr Schnabl, Gang Li, Šimon Kdýr, Gunther Kletetschka, Petr Skupien, Andrea Svobodová, Karolína Hladíková, Meizhen Cao, William A. P. Wimbledon
KEYWORDS:
Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary, Dorset, Northern Hebe, Western Liaoning, Palaeomagnetism, Biostratigraphy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Geology,
Vol.9 No.10,
September
24,
2019
ABSTRACT: The Purbeck beds in Dorset, the Tuchengzi Formation in western Liaoning Liaoning Province or the Houcheng Formation in northern Hebei Province are non-marine Jurassic/Cretaceous (J/K) boundary sequences. A Czech-China Inter-Governmental S&T Cooperation Project has been carried out to search for the non-marine J/K boundary in northern China and making international correlation with the Purbeck beds in southern England. The combination of palaeomagnetism and biostratigraphy in northern China and southern England localities proves that these distant places had similar climatic conditions and the same fauna during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. A preliminary joint research has shown a fruitful result in searching for the non-marine J/K boundary in northern China.