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Article Dans Une Revue Earth and Planetary Science Letters Année : 2023

Astrochronology of the Aptian stage and evidence for the chaotic orbital motion of Mercury

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The Aptian stage, between ∼113 and ∼121 million years ago (Ma), was punctuated by a succession of Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs), recording extreme global warmings, dramatic expansions of the ocean's oxygen minimum zones, along with perturbations to the biotic and carbon cycles. However, the chronology of the Aptian stage is poorly constrained, impacting the duration and timing of OAEs. Using a greatly expanded sedimentary composite record (380 m) of key outcropping sections in the Vocontian Basin (SE France) combined with available radiometric dates and correlations to a set of astronomical solutions, we provide a constrained absolute astrochronology of the Aptian stage. The 405 kyr (gVenus–gJupiter) eccentricity astronomical timescale indicates a minimal duration of ∼9.4 Myr for the Aptian stage and an age of 122.6 ± 0.3 Ma for the base of the Aptian, consistent with radioisotope dating. We find a deviation in the periodicity of gMercury–gJupiter eccentricity term in the mid-Aptian stage, at ca. 117.19 ± 0.3 Ma, that we ascribe as an expression of the resonance transition σ = (gMercury – gJupiter) – (sMercury – sVenus), in relation with a strong chaotic orbital motion of Mercury. Such a geological observation is supported by a concomitant resonant transition in the La2004 astronomical model.
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hal-04071484 , version 1 (19-10-2023)

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Guillaume Charbonnier, Slah Boulila, Jorge Spangenberg, Jean Vermeulen, Bruno Galbrun. Astrochronology of the Aptian stage and evidence for the chaotic orbital motion of Mercury. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023, 610, pp.118104. ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118104⟩. ⟨hal-04071484⟩
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