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 …

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 …

Detrital geochronology studies require a careful quantification of hydraulic sorting effects
and of the variable abundance (fertility) of datable minerals in different parent rocks …

This study investigates the natural processes that control concentration of detrital minerals
and consequently chemical elements in river sand. The novelty of our approach consists in …

A practical classification of surface textures observed on detrital grains in sands and
sandstones is proposed, in order to enhance data reproducibility among operators and to …

Sediment provenance analysis remains a powerful method for testing hypotheses on the
temporal and spatial evolution of uplifted source regions, but issues such as recycling …

We here review what is known about the dunefields and fluvial systems of the Kalahari
Basin in terms of geological setting and Quaternary dynamics and set out what has been …

We trace compositional changes of Nile sediments for 7400 km, from their sources in
equatorial rift highlands of Burundi and Rwanda to their sink in the Mediterranean Sea. All …

Detrital studies that utilize zircon U–Pb geochronology and fission-track (FT)
thermochronometry are subject to a range of potential sources of bias that should be …