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 …

Zircons are abundant in the beach sediments. In this study, surface microtexture,
mineralogy, bulk sediment geochemistry, trace element composition and U–Pb isotopic …

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 …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 GEOMORPHOLOGY OF DESERT DUNES Sand dunes cover up to a
quarter of many desert regions. Determining the factors that determine their shape, size and …

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 …

We often resort to mythical thinking in the face of natural phenomena that we hardly
understand. Sedimentary petrology has several long-standing myths. One is that sediments …

Reconstruction of the palaeoenvironmental context of Martian sedimentary rocks is central to
studies of ancient Martian habitability and regional palaeoclimate history. This paper reports …

Microtextures, trace element concentrations, and U–Pb geochronology of detrital zircon
grains recovered from the Chachalacas beach in the western Gulf of Mexico were …

传统的重矿物分析是碎屑沉积物物源示踪的基本方法, 具有费用便宜, 物源信息全面等优点,
还可以为单矿物物源示踪提供重要的背景信息, 具有无可替代的作用. 近年来 …