Combined detrital-zircon fission-track and U-Pb dating: A new approach to understanding hinterland evolution

Abstract

For detrital-zircon provenance studies, we present a new methodology that combines low-temperature fission-track with high-temperature U-Pb single-grain dating methods. This approach removes single-technique-based bias which can lead to misinterpretation of source. By obtaining data from the same samples and/or grains, it is possible to identify both the underlying age structure of the source terrane and subsequent thermotectonic events. Using detrital zircons from sediments belonging to the Khorat Basin in Thailand, we show how a combined approach to zircon dating can be used to better understand the temporal association between source and depositional site-information that is integral to improving models of basin formation.

Fundamentals of detrital zircon fission-track analysis for provenance and exhumation studies with examples from the European Alps

“…One of the real promises of the FTGA technique is its ability to address the long-term exhumation of orogenic belts, because sediments in a stratigraphic sequence capture a representative picture of source exhumation through time (Cerveny et al, 1988;Brandon and Fundamentals of detrital zircon fission-track analysis Vance, 1992;Garver and Brandon, 1994b;Lonergan and Johnson, 1998;Carter and Moss, 1999;Garver et al, 1999;Carter and Bristow, 2000;Spiegel et al, 2000;Bernet et al, 2001). At this point, we can be reasonable assured that the basin strata captures representative samples of the orogenic belt through time, and there is a reasonably quantitative transfer of material.…”

Zircon U-Pb geochronology and heavy mineral composition constraints on the provenance of the middle Miocene deep-water reservoir sedimentary rocks in the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin, South China Sea

“…8), with two major Wang et al (2011), Wen (2013 and Wen et al (2013). Data for Indochina Block are from Carter and Moss (1999), Carter et al (2001), Carter and Bristow (2003), Roger et al (2007), Liu et al (2012) and Kamvong et al (2014). Data for Red River are from and Hoang et al (2009).…”

Mesozoic and Cenozoic Cooling History of the Qiangtang Block, Northern Tibet, China: New Constraints from Apatite and Zircon Fission Track Data

“…The cooling and exhumation history can be reconstructed based on these fission-track dates, revealing the geological evolution of a site. Researchers have previously used fission track dating to resolve numerous geological problems in tectonothermal evolution (Fellin et al 2006;Liu et al 2009), collisional orogeny (Liu et al 2000, magmatic activity (Yang et al 1995(Yang et al , 2003, crust exhumation and mountain uplift (Jain et al 2000;Garver et al 2005;Wang et al 2007; Lee et al 2010), fault action (Tagami 2005;Yuan et al 2006), and provenance studies (Carter and Moss 1999). Although many researchers have recently reported ZFT dates for the Tibetan Plateau, the thermo-chronological research on the Qiangtang block remains relatively scarce.…”