Provenance Analysis of Clastics Applied to Sedimentary Geology and Petrology
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (11 February 2022) | Viewed by 22255
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sedimentary geology; provenance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Provenance studies have benefited from new emergent techniques, which have promoted significant advances in recent years in the understanding of signal propagation in sediment routing systems. Classic methods, such as sedimentary petrography, heavy mineral analysis, or geochemistry analyses, have been successfully complemented with new tools, mainly concerning geo- and thermochronology dating of a wide range of minerals. Coupled with well-established methods, these recent advances are crucial to disentangle the processes involved in a source to sink system: from chemical and physical weathering of the source rock lithologies in catchment areas, to diagenetic modifications in the ultimate sink, which are in turn potentially affected by climate and tectonics within a dynamic environment. This Special Issue invites works focusing on recent advances in provenance studies, including new techniques, multidisciplinary approaches, and, of particular interest, the analysis of signal propagation within source to sink systems. Case studies with a particular interest are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. David Gómez-Gras
Dr. Marta Roigé
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- petrography
- geochemistry
- detrital geochronology
- provenance
- source-to-sink
- basin analysis