Developments in Sedimentary Provenance Studies
Developments in Sedimentary Provenance Studies
(Geological Society Special Publication)
By A. C. Morton, Seldon P. Todd, P. D. W. Haughton, 1991
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* Publisher: Geological Society of London
* Number Of Pages: 370
* Publication Date: 1991-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0903317567
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780903317566
The study of sedimentary provenance interfaces several of themainstream geological disciplines (mineralogy, geochemistry,geochronology, sedimentology, igneous and metamorphic petrology).Its remit includes the location and nature of sediment sourceareas, the pathways by which sediment is transferred from sourceto basin of deposition, and the factors that influence the compositionof sedimentary rocks (e.g. relief, climate, tectonic setting).Materials subject to study are as diverse as recent muds inthe Mississipi River basin (Potter et al. 1975), Archaean shales(McLennan et al. 1983), and soils on the Moon (Basu et al. 1988).
A range of increasingly sophisticated techniques is now availableto workers concerned with sediment provenance. Provenance datacan play a critical role in assessing palaeogeographic reconstructions,in constraining lateral displacements in orogens, in characterizingcrust which is no longer exposed, in testing tectonic modelsfor uplift at fault block or orogen scale, in mapping depositionalsystems, in sub-surface correlation and in predicting reservoirquality. On a global scale, the provenance of fine-grained sedimentshave been used to monitor crustal evolution.
We introduce below some of the novel techniques which are currentlybeing used in provenance work, and some of the areas in whichprovenance studies are making, and promise to make, an importantcontribution to our understanding of earth processes. Many ofthe techniques and applications are covered by papers collectedin this volume.
با گسترش روزافزون و اهميت بيش از پيش رسانههاي ديجيتال در دنياي معاصر؛ بهرهگيري از اين ابزارها جهت تسريع در رشد علمي كشور ناگزير است. از اين رو هدف از راهاندازي اين وبلاگ ايجاد فضايي جهت بحث و تبادل نظر در خصوص رشتهي زمين شناسي به صورت عام و گرايش چينه و فسيل شناسي به صورت خاص و ارائهي كتب و مقالات مرتبط با اين شاخه از علوم است.