“…Sea-surface magnetic anomalies within the JQZ, arbitrarily delineated as older than anomaly M25, typically have very low amplitudes and there is a gradual increase in amplitude, extending from at least M29 to around M19, which may be field related (Cande et al, 1978;McElhinny and Larson, 2003) (Figure 8(a)). Although the lineated nature of even older M-sequence anomalies has been documented over fast spreading crust and used for tectonic reconstructions (Handschumacher et al, 1988;Nakanishi et al, 1989;Nakanishi and Winterer, 1998), magnetostratigraphic evidence for polarity reversals over the time interval represented by the JQZ, that is, prior to $M25, is still ambiguous (e.g., Channell et al, 1984;Juarez et al, 1994;Steiner et al, 1985). These older anomalies resemble the kind of shortwavelength, low-amplitude anomalies observed in the Cenozoic that have been attributed to paleointensity variations (Cande and Kent, 1992b).…”