Depositional History of Coastal Plain Sediments, Southern Kerala, South West India

Ti, Varghese; Tn, Prakash; Nagendra, R.

doi:10.4172/2157-7617.1000355

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“…Larger size conchoidal fractures resulted from a highly active fluvial transport, following a morphological response similar to that commonly observed in other detrital minerals like quartz, ilmenite, garnet and zircon found in modern and ancient sandstones (Kasper‐Zubillaga et al, 2005; Madhavaraju et al, 2022; Mejía‐Ledezma et al, 2020; Moral‐Cardona et al, 2005; Reddad et al, 2016; Varghese et al, 2016). The largest conchoidal fractures were probably generated on large, exposed areas and acquired by the clinopyroxenes during transport and depositional episodes in a similar manner to that observed in coarse‐sized quartz grains (Vos et al, 2014).…”

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Surface textures of detrital pyroxenes in coastal dune sands (western Gulf of Mexico, Mexico): Implications for their preservation and geoenvironmental processes

Kasper‐Zubillaga

Martínez‐Serrano

Buchs

et al. 2023

The Depositional Record

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This work investigates how the surface textures and morphology of pyroxene grains evolve during their source‐to‐sink history. This study applies to detrital clinopyroxenes concentrated in coastal dune sands of the Gulf of Mexico which were sourced in the Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt then transported and deposited in environments subject to limited chemical weathering. The composition and morphology of the pyroxenes was characterised using single‐grain geochemical analysis and surface texture imagery with a novel approach based on the compactness property to assess the shape of minerals. This reveals heterogenous diopside‐augite populations, displaying mineral morphologies dominantly controlled by impact breakage along cleavages, little physical abrasion along their edges and with limited evidence for chemical weathering. Mechanical surface textures dominate over mechanical/chemical and chemical surface textures. These mechanical surface textures are preserved primarily as flat cleavage surfaces and rounded edges inherited from fluvial‐intertidal and aeolian transport, respectively. Mechanically/chemically induced surface textures are preserved as elongated depressions. Chemical surface textures are sparse and mostly represented by mammillated textures that suggest local dissolution under subaqueous conditions. The scarcity of chemical surface textures is attributed to frequent fragmentation of the clinopyroxenes along cleavages and limited chemical weathering during transport of the observed populations. Clinopyroxene grains in the coastal dune sands primarily retain surface characteristics from fluvial transport. Although the breakage of minerals along cleavages can obscure their original morphology under a weathering‐limited erosion regime, this study shows how surface textures and morphology of pyroxene grains is used to determine episodes of transport and deposition close to volcanic environments. The use of the compactness property as a shape descriptor measurement of particles provides an alternative approach to observe how clinopyroxene remains unaltered despite the high energy conditions of the coastal area.

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