Provenance and geochronology of Cenozoic sandstones of northern Borneo

Hattum, Marco W.A. van; Hall, Robert; Pickard, A.L.; Nichols, Gary

doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.02.033

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“…van Hattum et al . [] interpreted this age spectral variation as marking a provenance change from the nearby Schwaner Mountains in the Eocene to Peninsular Malaysia in the Oligocene. Although the Upper Oligocene samples from both the southern Pearl River Mouth Basin and Northwest Borneo yield similar U‐Pb age ranges from 0 to 2500 Ma, the former is characterized by well‐defined multimodal age peaks at about 140, 425, and 970 Ma, whereas the latter features a major age peak at ca.…”

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“…Age distributions are plotted as histograms (open bars) and kernel density estimation (red lines with dominant age peaks in Ma). Age data for Northwest Borneo are from sandstones [ van Hattum et al ., ]. Age data for the Palawan Continental Terrane are from the Late Cretaceous‐Eocene meta‐sediments [ Walia et al ., ; Suggate et al ., ] with its Oligocene panels omitted due to carbonate sedimentation at that time.…”

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“…However, published U-Pb geochronological studies from the southern margin of the SCS are relatively scarce compared to those from the northern margin. Nevertheless, some detrital zircon U-Pb ages of the Paleogene strata from Borneo and Palawan [Walia et al, 2012;van Hattum et al, 2013;Suggate et al, 2014] are compared and discussed below in section 6.2.…”

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Detrital zircon provenance of the Paleogene syn‐rift sediments in the northern South China Sea

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The early rift sedimentation history of the South China Sea is still not well understood due to restricted borehole coverage of the Paleogene strata and lack of reliable stratigraphic dating. We use detrital zircon U‐Pb geochronology to explore the source‐to‐sink characteristics of syn‐rift sequences in the northern South China Sea. The results reveal significant intrabasinal provenances in addition to the well‐perceived terrigenous supply from the north. The Dongsha Uplift is considered to account for the dominance of the Early Cretaceous zircons in the Eocene samples. The Lower Oligocene sediments in the Qiongdongnan Basin could have been sourced from Hainan Island and local uplifts, but their distinction cannot be confirmed by the U‐Pb age spectra. Contemporary sediments in the northern Pearl River Mouth Basin were most likely transported from southeastern South China with well‐rounded zircon grains showing U‐Pb age similarity to those from the northeastern tributaries of the Pearl River. By contrast, intrabasinal sources from the west and east are suggested to have contributed the infill of the southern part of the Pearl River Mouth Basin based on generally euhedral zircon shapes. These sedimentary source patterns appear to change very little in the Oligocene northern South China Sea. However, the newly detected Neoproterozoic zircons in the Upper Oligocene sediments from borehole L21 tend to indicate a southern source. The episodic and diachronic nature of rifting and erosion processes in the early South China Sea is the cause of complex patterns in the Paleogene provenance history.

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Detrital zircon provenance of the Paleogene syn‐rift sediments in the northern South China Sea

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“…Source areas undergoing rapid uplift may generate large volumes of coarse-grained clastic sediments, with the development of high-gradient braided or low-sinuosity channel systems, within the upstream portion of the drainage basin (Cant and Walker, 1978). We also take into account the significant effect of tropical weathering on sandstone composition in provenance study of the Southeast Asian region, which had attributed to the compositional maturity in the Eocene sandstones of northern Borneo (van Hattum et al, 2013). However, geochemical characteristics of the Pondaung sandstones reflected that there was no evidence of intense tropical weathering in either of their original source rocks, during transportation or before deposition.…”

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Provenance of the Eocene sandstones in the southern Chindwin Basin, Myanmar: Implications for the unroofing history of the Cretaceous–Eocene magmatic arc

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Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

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“…In the light of recent investigations on the sedimentary compositions and facies of these strata (Breitfeld & Hall, ; Hennig et al, ; van Hattum, Hall, Pickard, & Nichols, ), we favour the viewpoint that deep marine sediments of the Rajang Group outcropping in the Sibu Zone (Haile, ) formed as a submarine fan along the southern passive margin of the Proto‐South China Sea, and separated by the Lupar Line, the lateral terrestrial equivalent of the Rajang Group can be traced westward to the Kuching Supergroup in the Kuching Zone (Haile, ). By contrast, the Crocker Formation outcropping northeast of the West Baram Line is interpreted to be deposited in a volcanic forearc setting related to the Proto‐South China Sea subduction, although a Palaeogene deep‐water continental margin setting without subduction is also feasible (van Hattum et al, ). However, the spatial configuration of the Proto‐South China Sea and the Eocene spreading centre revealed by the Palawan ophiolites is still unknown, and they may be externally juxtaposed (Keenan et al, ) or the latter being generated within the former (Ilao, Morley, & Aurelio, ).…”

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Cretaceous–Palaeogene sedimentary evolution of the South China Sea region: A preliminary synthesis

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Rocks in extensional settings are generally sensitive to destruction and erosion, resulting in poor preservation potential and accumulation of their eroded components. The South China margin was dominated by a prolonged extensional setting from Late Mesozoic to Early Cenozoic, and this geological history is exactly archived in sediments within and surrounding the present South China Sea. However, the sedimentary evolution of the region, especially prior to the continental breakup and oceanic spreading, remains an issue of uncertainty and controversy, mostly due to limited borehole penetration and poor seismic reflection data for deeply buried sequences, as well as the lack of reliable regional stratigraphic framework. Here, we illustrate the Cretaceous–Palaeogene sedimentary evolution of the South China Sea region by synthesizing relevant data from previous literature and our own observations and displaying the evolution of lithofacies in sequential palinspastic reconstructions. The preferred palaeogeographic scenarios incorporate the latest interpretations of the conjugate relationship between continental margins as well as the birth and demise of the hypothetical Proto‐South China Sea. The patterns of lithofacies and depositional environments at regional scales, along with available provenance data, clearly reveal sedimentary responses to the significant Mesozoic–Cenozoic transition of plate geodynamics and magmatism along the Asian margin and provide implications for the potential mechanism of Cenozoic extension represented by distinct yet continuous processes of continental rifting and oceanic spreading.

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Provenance and geochronology of Cenozoic sandstones of northern Borneo

Cited by 98 publications

References 55 publications

Detrital zircon provenance of the Paleogene syn‐rift sediments in the northern South China Sea

Detrital zircon provenance of the Paleogene syn‐rift sediments in the northern South China Sea

Provenance of the Eocene sandstones in the southern Chindwin Basin, Myanmar: Implications for the unroofing history of the Cretaceous–Eocene magmatic arc

Cretaceous–Palaeogene sedimentary evolution of the South China Sea region: A preliminary synthesis

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