Sediment Provenance: Influences on Compositional Change from Source to Sink

Sediment Provenance: Influences on Compositional Change from Source to Sink explores how provenance data play a critical role in a number of aspects of sedimentary rocks, including assessing palaeogeographic reconstructions, constraining lateral displacements in orogens, characterizing crust which is no longer exposed, mapping depositional systems, sub-surface correlation, and predicting reservoir quality. The book discusses all of these major challenges and arms geoscientists with an all-in-one reference to sedimentary rocks, from source to sink. In spite of significant technological development and consequent scientific advancement in the last twenty years, there is very little literature, and no special publication, that treats sedimentary rocks from a source to sink perspective. This book provides a critical and comprehensive overview as well as new data-based sediment provenance analyses from Recent to Paleoarchean from several continents. A state-of-the art exposition of sediment provenance analyses, as presented herein, will substantially help to identify key issues, fill gaps in the existing knowledge base, and initiate new research to characterize source rock, infer paleoweathering, paleoclimate, and tectonics, and ultimately, to gain insights into the evolution of continental crust.  Provides the latest data available on various aspects of sedimentary rocks from their source to depositionFeatures case studies throughout that illustrate new data and critical analyses of published data by some of the world's most pre-eminent sedimentologistsIncludes more than 150 illustrations, photos, figures, and diagrams that underscore key concepts INDICE: 1. Introduction  Rajat Mazumder2. Evolution of Siliciclastic Provenance Inquiries: A Critical Appraisal  Abhijit Basu3. Tracing the source of the bio/siliciclastic beach sands at Rosa Marina (Apulian coast, SE Italy)  Tom van Loon4. Changes in the heavy-mineral spectra on their way from various sources to joint sinks - a case study of Pleistocene sandurs and an ice-marginal valley in NW Poland  Tom van Loon5. Reconstruction of paleohydraulic condition from depositional structures: a critical appraisal  Prabir Dasgupta6. Physico-chemical Characteristics of the Barremian-Aptian Siliciclastic Rocks in the Pondicherry Embryonic Rift Sub-basin, India  Subir Sarkar7. Petrological and geochemical constraints on provenance, paleo-weathering and tectonic setting of clastic sediments from the Neogene Lambir and Sibuti Formations, North West Borneo  Ramasamy Nagarajan8. Where are the Precambrian Tsunami Deposits?  Madagascar Chevrons and other Modern Analogues Provide Insights into Identifying Ancient Tsunamigenic Sequences  Dallas Abbott9. The Contourite Problem  G. Shanmugam10. Fluvial Systems, Provenance and Reservoir Development in the Eocene Brennan Basin Member of the Duchesne River Formation, Northern Uinta Basin, Utah  Marjorie A. Chan and Takashi Sato 11. Changes in the shape of breccia lenses during sliding from source to sink in the Cambrian epeiric sea of the North China Platform  Tom van Loon12. Provenance of chert rudites and arenites in the northern Canadian Cordillera  Darrel Graham Francis Long13. Late Neoproterozoic to early Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the Tasmanides, eastern Australia: Provenance switching associated with development of the East Gondwana active margin  Chris Fergusson14. Utility of Detrital Zircons in an Upper Amphibolite Facies Terrane  Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli15. Detrital zircon (U-Pb SHRIMP and LA-ICPMS) geochronology, Nd isotope mapping and sediment geochemistry from the Singhora Group, central India: Implications towards provenance, its shift and regional stratigraphic correlation  Partha Chakraborty and Kaushik Das 16. Deciphering sedimentary provenance, timing of sedimentation and metamorphism from a suite of metapelites from the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex (CGGC), India: Implications for Proterozoic tectonics in the east-central part of the Indian shield  Pulak Sengupta17. SEM -CL fabric analysis of quartz framework population from the Mesoarchean Keonjhar Quartzite from Singhbhum Craton, eastern India - Implications for the understanding of upper continental crust  Joydip Mukhopadhyay18. Provenance of detrital pyrite in Archaean sedimentary rocks  Giuliana Costa and Axel Hofmann 19. Ice ages in Earth history: puzzling palaeolatitudes and regional provenance of ice sheets on an evolving planet  Grant Young20. The Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland): Spotlight on the oldest well-preserved sedimentary systems (~3.7, ~3.75 and ~3.8 Ga)  Allen Nutman

• ISBN: 978-0-12-803386-9
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 600
• Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés