Evidences of the Blake and Iceland Basin magnetic excursions in southeastern Iberia and chronological implications for the Padul sedimentary record Valero, Luis García-Alix Daroca, Antonio Jiménez Moreno, Gonzalo Camuera, Jon López Avilés, Alejandro Jesús Ramos-Román, María J. Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco José Paleoclimate Magnetic excursion Blake Iceland Basin Padul Mediterranean paleoclimate Acknowledgments This study was supported by the project B-RNM-144-UGR18 and ARNM- 336-UGR20 of the action “Proyectos I + D + i del Programa Operativo FEDER 2018 - Junta de Andalucía-UGR”, the projects CGL2013-47038-R and CGL2017-85415-R, of the “Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional FEDER”, and the research group RNM-190 (Junta de Andalucía), and the projects P18-RT-871 and Retos P20_00059 of Junta de Andalucia. A.G.-A. was also supported by a Ram´on y Cajal Fellowship RYC-2015-18966 of the Spanish Government (Ministerio de Economía y Competividad). A.L.-A PhD is funded by BES-2018-084293 (Ministerio de Economía y Competividad). We thank the Paleomagnetic Laboratory CCiTUB-Geo3Bcn CSIC for the support on paleomagnetic analysis. LV and EB thank the Geomodels Research Institute (UB). We are very grateful to two anonymous reviewers and to the editor Christian Zeeden. The Padul-15-05 sediment core provides an exceptional perspective of the paleoenvironmental and climate change in the Western Mediterranean region for the last ca. 200 kyr. However, even though a robust chronology mainly relying on radiometric dating is available for the last 50 ka, the chronology for the older sediments is not yet fully resolved. Ages for the bottom part of the core (>21 m) were previously inferred from amino-acid racemization dating and sediment accumulation rates. In this work, we provide a more accurate chronology for the older part (>100 kyr) of the Padul-15-05 sediment core record based on the recognition of past Earth's magnetic excursions. We identify an interval prone of reversed polarity samples close to MIS-5e/5 d transition that we correlate to the Blake geomagnetic excursion (116.5 kyr–112 kyr). In addition, we identify an interval of low inclinations and two reversed samples that we interpret as the Iceland Basin geomagnetic excursion (192.7 kyr–187.7 kyr: wide scenario of VGP <40°). Our new results, which include IRM acquisition curves that contribute to understand the magnetic mineralogy, enhances the robustness of the age model for the Padul-15-05 sedimentary sequence by adding an independent age dataset with new accurate tie-points. Our refined age control together with the available paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate multiproxy data provide insightful information to unveil the response of the western Mediterranean environments to regional environmental and climate change. 2023-01-25T11:56:28Z 2023-01-25T11:56:28Z 2022-12-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article L. Valero et al. Evidences of the Blake and Iceland Basin magnetic excursions in southeastern Iberia and chronological implications for the Padul sedimentary record. Quaternary Geochronology 74 (2023) 101421 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101421] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/79330 10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101421 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier