Sediment Provenance

Sediment Provenance: Influences on Compositional Change from Source to Sink provides a thorough and inclusive overview that features data-based case studies on a broad range of dynamic aspects in sedimentary rock structure and deposition. Provenance data plays a critical role in a number of aspects of sedimentary rocks, including the assessment of palaeogeographic reconstructions, the constraints of lateral displacements in orogens, the characterization of crust which is no longer exposed, the mapping of depositional systems, sub-surface correlation, and in predicting reservoir quality.

The provenance of fine-grained sediments-on a global scale-has been used to monitor crustal evolution, and sediment transport is paramount in considering restoration techniques for both watershed and river restoration. Transport is responsible for erosion, bank undercutting, sandbar formation, aggradation, gullying, and plugging, as well as bed form migration and generation of primary sedimentary structures.

Additionally, the quest for reservoir quality in contemporary hydrocarbon exploration and extraction necessitates a deliberate focus on diagenesis. This book addresses all of these challenges and arms geoscientists with an all-in-one reference to sedimentary rocks, from source to deposition.

• Provides the latest data available on various aspects of sedimentary rocks from their source to deposition
• Features case studies throughout that illustrate new data and critical analyses of published data by some of the world's most pre-eminent sedimentologists
• Includes more than 150 illustrations, photos, figures, and diagrams that underscore key concepts

Inhalt

1. Introduction
   Rajat Mazumder
   
   2. Evolution of Siliciclastic Provenance Inquiries: A Critical Appraisal
      Abhijit Basu
   3. Tracing the source of the bio/siliciclastic beach sands at Rosa Marina (Apulian coast, SE Italy)
      Tom van Loon
   4. Changes in the heavy-mineral spectra on their way from various sources to joint sinks - a case study of Pleistocene sandurs and an ice-marginal valley in NW Poland
      Tom van Loon
   5. Reconstruction of paleohydraulic condition from depositional structures: a critical appraisal
      Prabir Dasgupta
   6. Physico-chemical Characteristics of the Barremian-Aptian Siliciclastic Rocks in the Pondicherry Embryonic Rift Sub-basin, India
      Subir Sarkar
   7. Petrological and geochemical constraints on provenance, paleo-weathering and tectonic setting of clastic sediments from the Neogene Lambir and Sibuti Formations, North West Borneo
      Ramasamy Nagarajan
   8. Where are the Precambrian Tsunami Deposits? Madagascar Chevrons and other Modern Analogues Provide Insights into Identifying Ancient Tsunamigenic Sequences
      Dallas Abbott
   9. The Contourite Problem
      G. Shanmugam
   10. Fluvial Systems, Provenance and Reservoir Development in the Eocene Brennan Basin Member of the Duchesne River Formation, Northern Uinta Basin, Utah
       Marjorie A. Chan and Takashi Sato
   11. Changes in the shape of breccia lenses during sliding from source to sink in the Cambrian epeiric sea of the North China Platform
       Tom van Loon
   12. Provenance of chert rudites and arenites in the northern Canadian Cordillera
       Darrel Graham Francis Long
   13. Late Neoproterozoic to early Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the Tasmanides, eastern Australia: Provenance switching associated with development of the East Gondwana active margin
       Chris Fergusson
   14. Utility of Detrital Zircons in an Upper Amphibolite Facies Terrane
       Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli
   15. Detrital zircon (U-Pb SHRIMP and LA-ICPMS) geochronology, Nd isotope mapping and sediment geochemistry from the Singhora Group, central India: Implications towards provenance, its shift and regional stratigraphic correlation
       Partha Chakraborty and Kaushik Das
   16. Deciphering sedimentary provenance, timing of sedimentation and metamorphism from a suite of metapelites from the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex (CGGC), India: Implications for Proterozoic tectonics in the east-central part of the Indian shield
       Pulak Sengupta
   17. SEM -CL fabric analysis of quartz framework population from the Mesoarchean Keonjhar Quartzite from Singhbhum Craton, eastern India - Implications for the understanding of upper continental crust
       Joydip Mukhopadhyay
   18. Provenance of detrital pyrite in Archaean sedimentary rocks
       Giuliana Costa and Axel Hofmann
   19. Ice ages in Earth history: puzzling palaeolatitudes and regional provenance of ice sheets on an evolving planet
       Grant Young
   20. The Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland): Spotlight on the oldest well-preserved sedimentary systems (~3.7, ~3.75 and ~3.8 Ga)
       Allen Nutman