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DOI | 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.11.004 |
Zircon size-age sorting and source-area effect: The German Triassic Buntsandstein Group | |
Augustsson, Carita1; Voigt, Thomas2; Bernhart, Kristin2; Kreissler, Marian2; Gaupp, Reinhard2; Gaertner, Andreas3; Hofmann, Mandy3; Linnemann, Ulf3 | |
通讯作者 | Augustsson, Carita |
来源期刊 | SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
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ISSN | 0037-0738 |
EISSN | 1879-0968 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 375页码:218-231 |
英文摘要 | This study stresses how zircon-grain length versus age correlation significantly can improve provenance interpretations. Hence, taking sedimentary sorting effects into account, we present a detrital-zircon provenance study for continental deposits of the Central European, Lower Triassic Buntsandstein Group in Germany. The Buntsandstein Group was deposited in an extended intracontinental sag basin of Pangea under arid climate conditions. It included several intrabasinal tectonic swells, some of which have been assumed topographic highs acting as detrital source areas. This study of the Lower and Middle Buntsandstein subgroups in Central Germany indicates that particularly the Massif Central and the Bohemian Massif contributed to the basin fill of the central part of the Central European Basin. The Rhenish Massif, an assumed highland, was submerged. This interpretation is based on >1000 zircon grains from 12 sandstone beds. The unbroken grains in seven of the zircon separates have mean lengths of 190-220 pm and five are composed 100-140 mu m long grains in average. All have a main population of 340-320 Ma Carboniferous ages, representative of granitic, probably zircon-rich, rocks from the Variscan Orogen of the Massif Central and the Bohemian Massif. This first-cycle detritus was mixed with recycled, abraded zircon grains from Ediacaran to Palaeozoic metasedimentary units feeding the basin with 610-460 Ma (Ediacaran to Ordovician) and 2 Ga age grains, as is typical for Gondwana-derived material. The Ediacaran to Ordovician age population is common only in five samples with mean grain lengths of 100-140 pm. Grains of such ages mainly are <130 mu m in the east, but equally common in all grain sizes in western sandstone beds. A western group was fed from the Massif Central and an eastern group derived from the Bohemian Massif. However, abrasion, age-population variations for pre-Variscan grains, and dominating wind directions indicate that two different fluvial systems delivered the Bohemian material and that this was combined with aeolian and alongshore lacustrine transport from the south and west. We conclude that interpretation of detrital zircon ages preferably are separately for different size classes, because zircon studies performed on broad grain-size intervals without considering possible size-age correlations may disguise sorting effects that potentially can lead to a misleading source-area interpretation. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Detrital zircon U-Pb Buntsandstein Triassic Provenance Sorting |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Norway ; Germany |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000447476000017 |
WOS关键词 | WESTERN BOHEMIAN MASSIF ; SAXO-THURINGIAN ZONE ; U-PB ; VARISCAN BELT ; DETRITAL ZIRCONS ; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY ; EUROPEAN VARISCIDES ; GONDWANA MARGIN ; ND ISOTOPES ; RHEIC OCEAN |
WOS类目 | Geology |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/213127 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Stavanger, Inst Petr Teknol, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway; 2.Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Inst Geowissensch, Burgweg 11, D-07749 Jena, Germany; 3.Senckenberg Nat Hist Sammlungen Dresden, Koningsbrucker Landstr 159, D-01109 Dresden, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Augustsson, Carita,Voigt, Thomas,Bernhart, Kristin,et al. Zircon size-age sorting and source-area effect: The German Triassic Buntsandstein Group[J],2018,375:218-231. |
APA | Augustsson, Carita.,Voigt, Thomas.,Bernhart, Kristin.,Kreissler, Marian.,Gaupp, Reinhard.,...&Linnemann, Ulf.(2018).Zircon size-age sorting and source-area effect: The German Triassic Buntsandstein Group.SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY,375,218-231. |
MLA | Augustsson, Carita,et al."Zircon size-age sorting and source-area effect: The German Triassic Buntsandstein Group".SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY 375(2018):218-231. |
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