Peat depositional environments, the sites where and conditions under which peat
accumulates, significantly influence a resultant coal's physical properties, chemical …

Petrographic classifications of sand and sandstone proposed more than half a century ago
are still in use, although they were formulated at a time when depositional and post …

The classical approach to sandstone petrology, established in the golden years of plate
tectonics and based on the axiom that “detrital modes of sandstone suites primarily reflect …

Discrimination of active and passive margins is important from both academic and economic
aspects. This can only be successfully achieved, however, if there are major compositional …

In the last two centuries, since the dawn of modern geology, heavy minerals have been used
to investigate sediment provenance and for many other scientific or practical applications …

Geochemical parameters obtained from the analysis of sediments and sedimentary rocks
are widely used to infer weathering and paleo-weathering conditions in source areas …

The present work deals with the provenance of lower-middle Jurassic successions
belonging to the External Prerif Foreland basin, which remains till now misunderstood and …

This study presents an integrated mineralogical–geochemical database on fine-grained
sediments transported by all major rivers of southern Africa, including the Zambezi …

Compositional and geochemical analyses of sands collected from the Chachalacas (CHA)
and Veracruz (VER) beach areas along the western Gulf of Mexico were studied to …

The fertility and heterogeneity of source rocks play important roles in determining the age
distribution of detrital zircon populations that accumulate in sedimentary basins. Detrital …