Detrital zircon ages: a key to understanding the deposition of deep marine sandstones in the Norwegian Sea

Detrital zircon U–Pb ages of the Proterozoic metaclastic-sedimentary rocks in Hainan Province of South China: New constraints on the depositional time, source area, and tectonic setting of the Shilu Fe–Co–Cu ore district

“…By lateral and stratigraphical comparisons of detrital zircon age spectra in the investigated sedimentary members, variations in the sedimentary source(s) with time can be constrained, and thus reflect the evolution history of the basins (Fonneland et al, 2004). However, it is noted that interpretations of provenance must consider the possible recycling of detritus through sedimentary systems of the same or older age (Dickinson and Gehrels, 2003).…”

Provenance of Upper Miocene to Quaternary sediments in the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin, South China Sea: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb ages

“…Traditional petrography, heavy mineral analysis and sequence stratigraphic methods cannot distinguish the source area effectively, especially in the source complex regions. In recent years, sedimentary provenance technology has been improved by single grain radiometric dating of grain populations, for example detrital zircon U-Pb dating (Cawood and Nemchin, 2000;Fonneland et al, 2004;Morton et al, 2008;Beltrán-Triviño et al, 2013). Zircon as a kind of stable mineral can withstand the effects of weathering, erosion and thermal alteration (Cherniak and Watson, 2001;Košler and Sylvester, 2003), and possess a stable U-Pb isotopic system over a wide range of pressures, temperatures and fluid composition (Moecher and Samson, 2006;Zhao et al, 2013).…”

Detrital Rutile Geochemistry and Thermometry as Guides to Provenance of Jurassic-Paleocene Sandstones of the Norwegian Sea

“…This case study deals with Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Paleocene sandstones from the Norwegian Sea (Fig. 1), which have already been extensively studied using a combination of provenance-sensitive heavy mineral ratios, garnet geochemistry, tourmaline geochemistry, and detrital zircon geochronology (Fonneland et al 2004;Morton et al 2005a;Morton et al 2005b;Morton et al 2009). Additional objectives of the study were to provide additional constraints on composition and metamorphic grade of the ultimate source regions and to assess the value of rutile geochemistry in the more deeply-buried parts of the basin where some key provenance indicator minerals (notably garnet) are absent due to diagenetic modification (Walderhaug and Porten 2007).…”