Sourcing the sand: Accessory mineral fertility, analytical and other biases in detrital U-Pb provenance analysis

D Chew, G O'Sullivan, L Caracciolo, C Mark… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Interpreting the wealth of new data derived from the diverse suite of modern single-grain
provenance approaches available to a sedimentologist requires a thorough understanding …

Needles in a haystack: Detrital zircon UPb ages and the maximum depositional age of modern global sediment

GR Sharman, MA Malkowski - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The practice of using the youngest detrital grains from a sedimentary deposit to constrain its
depositional age has grown rapidly over the past two decades. Researchers that use the …

On the treatment of discordant detrital zircon U–Pb data

P Vermeesch - Geochronology Discussions, 2020 - gchron.copernicus.org
Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology is a staple of sedimentary provenance analysis and
crustal evolution studies. Constructing detrital age spectra is straightforward for concordant …

Analyses from a validated global UPb detrital zircon database: enhanced methods for filtering discordant UPb zircon analyses and optimizing crystallization age …

SJ Puetz, CJ Spencer, CE Ganade - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Determining the “best age” of individual grains from Usingle bond Pb detrital zircon analyses
remains problematic, with the current system generally relying on an arbitrary cut-off age for …

Atomic spectrometry update–a review of advances in environmental analysis

WRL Cairns, OT Butler, O Cavoura… - Journal of Analytical …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Highlights in the field of air analysis included: a new focus on measuring micro-and
nanoplastic particles in air, the development of hyphenated ICP-MS systems for in situ …

U–Pb geochronology of Variscan granitoids from the Moroccan Meseta (Northwest Africa): tectonic implications

F Chopin, R Leprêtre, M El Houicha, AS Tabaud… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper present new U–Pb geochronological data (LA-ICP MS on zircon) of granitoids
from the Moroccan Meseta Variscan belt. Zircons from the Oulad Ouaslam granodiorite in …

Provenance of Oligocene–Miocene sedimentary rocks in the Cuu Long and Nam Con Son basins, Vietnam and early history of the Mekong River

HT Breitfeld, J Hennig-Breitfeld… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The offshore Cuu Long (CLB) and Nam Con Son (NCSB) basins of SE Vietnam are
two important Cenozoic hydrocarbon-bearing basins in the southern South China Sea …

Geochronological and geochemical constraints for the metavolcanosedimentary succession of the Nyong Complex, northwestern margin of the Congo craton …

ED Sezine, LS Tamehe, S Ganno, MN Tankwa… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Mewongo area of the Nyong Complex is located in the northwestern part of the Congo
craton in southwestern Cameroon. The metavolcanosedimentary succession in this area …

The zircon story of the Pearl River (China) from Cretaceous to present

J He, E Garzanti, L Cao, H Wang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The modern Pearl River originates from SE Tibet and debouches into the South
China Sea. The development of the Pearl River is closely related to the evolving topography …

Using volcaniclastic rocks to constrain sedimentation ages: To what extent are volcanism and sedimentation synchronous?

C Rossignol, E Hallot, S Bourquin, M Poujol… - Sedimentary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Volcaniclastic rocks are commonly used to date sedimentary series since absolute ages are
routinely obtained from several geochronological methods. In this work, we present five …