Detrital Mineral U/Pb Age Dating and Geochemistry of Magmatic Products in Basin Sequences State of the Art and Progress

• Other Authors: Winkler, Wilfried (Editor), von Quadt, Albrecht (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Research & information: general; detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology; bulk geochemistry; provenance; tectonic setting; West Bogeda Shan; U-Pb geochronology; detrital zircon; source-to-sink; provenance analysis; mixing model; sediment budgeting; east China seas; Pennsylvanian; Sino-Korean Block; detrital zircons; U-Pb ages; subduction zones; U-Pb dating; sandstone petrography; peripheral bulge; tectonics; zircon U-Pb ages; muscovite 40Ar/39Ar ages; sediment provenance; Yangtze River; detrital-zircon age spectrum; Ereendavaa terrane; Mongol-Okhotsk orogenic belt; opening of the Mongol-Okhotsk ocean; northeastern Mongolia; Lu-Hf isotopes; early Miocene; Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin; South China Sea; stratigraphic thicknesses; net sand to gross thickness ratio; conglomerate percentage; heavy mineral analysis; detrital zircon U‒Pb geochronology; Intermontane basin; Mongolia; laser ablation U-Pb dating; Hafnium isotope-ratio; terrane definition; paleotectonic reconstruction; Western Andes; Miocene; Silante Formation; Ecuador; compositional heterogeneity; major element; nonmarine basin; gejiu basalts; zircon U-Pb dating; geochemistry; Sr-Nd-Pb isotope; petrogenesis; Cameroon; Meiganga; gold placer; trace element; geochronology; Archean-Proterozoic origins; zircon crystal morphology; zircon textures; zircon trace elements; alteration of zircon; REE in zircon; rare metal granites; Li-F granites; Western Hercynian Meseta; Permian basin; Tiddas Souk Es-Sebt des ait ikko volcanic basin; mineralogy; petrology; n/a
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Dating and geochemical analyses of detrital minerals (mainly zircons) combined with traditional methods, such as heavy minerals and sandstone modes, are a powerful tool in paleogeographic and paleotectonic research and industrial applications.