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Planktonic foraminifera, age of sediments and polarity reversals, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Samples from the Rudiger Point-Cape Ruge area, New Britain, are not from a conformable late Miocene-earliest Pliocene sequence, as was presumed by previous workers, but rather are of two age groups, one of general middle Miocene age, and a younger group of late Miocene age. A sample of volcanolithic sandstone, NG34B, is of late Pliocene-middle Pleistocene, Zone N.21-Zone N.22, age; this is the youngest marine sediment yet recognised in New Britain. Planktonic Zone N.18 is correlated, at least in part, with a normally magnetised interval.

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Title Planktonic foraminifera, age of sediments and polarity reversals, New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/9a1fbc0c-0354-4e3b-b686-39a7994fc80d
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Planktonic foraminifera, age of sediments and polarity reversals, New Britain, Papua New Guinea". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/planktonic-foraminifera-age-of-sediments-and-polarity-reversals-new-britain-papua-new-guinea