Provenance of late Carboniferous sandstones in the Pennine Basin (UK) from combined heavy mineral, garnet geochemistry and palaeocurrent studies

Hallsworth, C. R.; Chisholm, J. I.

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.11.002

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“…Siliciclastic deposits have also been observed on Anglesey to the west of the Great Orme, an area considered more proximal to the palaeo-coastline (Walkden & Davies 1983). The increase in siliclastic deposition is likely to have coincided with the earliest stages of Variscan uplift and an associated fall in relative sea level (Gawthorpe et al 1988;Kelling & Collinson 1992;Davies et al 2004;Hallsworth & Chisholm 2007).…”

Section: Deposition On the Great Ormementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Subsequently, within the hanging-wall basin, the black organic-rich Holywell Shales were deposited (Early Namurian, Pendleian to Yeadonian in age; Davies et al 2004). During the Late Namurian to Early Westphalian a secondary source of siliciclastic material was supplied in the form of turbidite-fronted fluvio-deltaic systems prograding southwards and westwards from the Pennine High to the NE of the East Irish Sea Basin (Gawthorpe et al 1988;Kelling & Collinson 1992;Davies et al 2004;Hallsworth & Chisholm 2007). These deposits are known locally on the North Wales Platform as the Gwespyr Sandstones (Yeadonian to Langsettian in age) (Williams & Eaton 1993;Jerrett & Sampson 2007).…”

Section: Tectonostratigraphic Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The control of basin evolution on patterns of sedimentation and diagenesis: an example from the Mississippian Great Orme, North Wales

Juerges

Hollis

Marshall

et al. 2015

JGS

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The Mississippian North Wales Platform is located on the margins of the East Irish Sea Basin and has been little studied over the last 30 years. The exposed Visean limestones provide new insights into the deposition, porosity evolution, distribution of dolomitization, and Pb-Zn and Cu mineralization on the North Wales carbonate platform. This is of relevance to the characterization of fault-related dolomite hydrocarbon reservoirs and age-equivalent Mississippi Valley-type mineral deposits. In particular, the study demonstrates the intimate relationship between sedimentation, basin-scale tectonism and postdepositional fluid flux. Depositional cyclicity is marked, with metre-scale upward-shallowing cycles in which pervasive marine and meteoric calcite cements occlude matrix porosity and syndepositional fractures. Consequently, subsequent burial diagenetic replacive dolomitization is matrix selective and cements are primarily restricted to fractures. Seven phases of dolomite are defined based on texture and cathodoluminescence petrography, with phases D1-D3 as the most volumetrically significant. Dolomite phases D0-D2 are matrix replacive, cross-cutting stratigraphy and locally fingering along beds for several metres. Dolomite phases D3-D7 are hosted by faults and fractures and also line vugs. Evidence of telogenesis is recorded where burial diagenetic products are post-dated by calcite cements precipitated from meteoric fluids. Dolomitization probably occurred during the Mississippian and continued into the Pennsylvanian. Pb-Zn mineralization is also interpreted to have occurred during the Pennsylvanian, associated with Variscan tectonism. Overall, the North Wales Platform displays a more complex paragenesis than age-equivalent platforms in the Pennine Basin, owing to multiple phases of burial and exhumation. The study demonstrates the importance of linking burial history to detailed field and petrographical data to understand and predict the spatial and temporal controls on diagenetic processes and products within syn-and post-rift sequences.

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The control of basin evolution on patterns of sedimentation and diagenesis: an example from the Mississippian Great Orme, North Wales

Juerges

Hollis

Marshall

et al. 2015

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“…Henry and Guidotti 1985;Hallsworth and Chisholm 2008;Kowal-Linka and Stawikowski 2013;Vďačný and Bačík 2015). In most previous studies, detrital tourmaline was represented by grains of dravite and schorl (with rare occurrences of uvite and Mg-foitite), principally derived from metapelites and metapsammites (with a subordinate proportion of grains from Li-poor granitoids).…”

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Provenance of Jurassic-Cretaceous siliciclastic rocks from the northern Siberian Craton: an integrated heavy mineral study

Vereshchagin¹,

Khudoley²,

Ershova³

et al. 2018

J. Geosci.

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The U-Pb ages of detrital zircons and the chemical compositions of detrital garnets and tourmalines from Jurassic-Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of the northern part of the Priverkhoyansk Foreland Basin, the central part of the Yenisey-Khatanga Depression, and the northern part of the Taimyr-Severnaya Zemlya Fold and Thrust Belt were used for a provenance study. Detrital zircons display two age populations, dominated by Late Paleozoic and Paleoproterozoic-Archean zircons, respectively. The first population was recognized in all samples, whereas the second is restricted to Cretaceous samples, suggesting that erosion of the Siberian Craton basement was the main source of clastic sediments only during the Cretaceous. The chemical compositions of the garnets also indicate several sources of detrital material, which changed with time. There are significant differences in the composition of Jurassic (grossular-almandine) and Cretaceous (mainly pyrope) garnets. The pyrope association is characteristic of the high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Siberian Craton, which correlates well with our zircon data. The chemical composition of tourmaline grains varies widely and does not show significant differences between samples of different ages, therefore could not be used to discriminate between different provenance areas in this study.

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“…The significantly lower contents of apatite were determined in the Stephanian deposits whereas Autunian deposits are characterized by a higher content. Wide variations in the ATi ratios suggest that the ratio are likely to be, at least in part, a function of weathering during alluvial storage (dissolved by contact with acidic waters) (Morton & Hallsworth 1999;Hallsworth & Chisholm 2008;Adhikari & Wagreich 2011). A possible burial of deposits below 3.5 km calls into question the validity of the GZi, ATi and MZi indices.…”

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Provenance analysis of the Permo-Carboniferous fluvial sandstones of the southern part of the Boskovice Basin and the Zöbing Area (Czech Republic, Austria): implications for paleogeographical reconstructions of the post-Variscan collapse basins

Nehyba¹,

Roetzel²,

Maštera³

2012

Geologica Carpathica

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Abstract:The provenance analyses of Permo-Carboniferous fluvial sandstones of the southern part of the Boskovice Basin and the Zöbing area are based on a wide spectrum of analytical techniques (petrography, heavy mineral assemblages, chemistry of garnet, rutile and spinel, zircon study, major and trace elements). The studied sandstones are poorly sorted and reveal a relatively immature composition implying short distance transport, rapid deposition, a high-relief source area, mainly physical weathering and the minor role of chemical weathering. Different source areas for the Boskovice Basin and the Zöbing area were proved. The Zöbing material was predominantly derived from crystalline units, mainly formed by metamorphic complexes, although the portions of magmatic and volcanic material were significant. The source area is supposed to be located in the Moldanubian Unit. The Boskovice Basin deposits, on the other hand, seem to be mainly derived from metamorphic complexes, corresponding especially to the Moravian Unit, with a relatively wider spectrum of metamorphites, together with the derivation of the detritus from pre-existing sedimentary rocks (especially from MoravoSilesian Paleozoic deposits/Drahany Culm unit). The transport direction in the basin was more complex, both from the west and east. These results did not confirm the possibility of communication between the Boskovice Basin and the Zöbing area during the Late Paleozoic. The existence of "colinear" marginally offset half grabens with predominant transversal sources is here hypothesized. The general heavy mineral evolution in time does not indicate the successive exhumation of a simple structured orogen but may be interpreted as differences in the extent of the source areas.

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Provenance of late Carboniferous sandstones in the Pennine Basin (UK) from combined heavy mineral, garnet geochemistry and palaeocurrent studies

Cited by 56 publications

References 34 publications

The control of basin evolution on patterns of sedimentation and diagenesis: an example from the Mississippian Great Orme, North Wales

The control of basin evolution on patterns of sedimentation and diagenesis: an example from the Mississippian Great Orme, North Wales

Provenance of Jurassic-Cretaceous siliciclastic rocks from the northern Siberian Craton: an integrated heavy mineral study

Provenance analysis of the Permo-Carboniferous fluvial sandstones of the southern part of the Boskovice Basin and the Zöbing Area (Czech Republic, Austria): implications for paleogeographical reconstructions of the post-Variscan collapse basins

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