Hadlari, T, Swindles, GT, Galloway, JM et al. (5 more authors) (2015) 1.8 billion years of detrital zircon recycling calibrates a refractory part of Earth’s sedimentary cycle. PLoS ONE, 10 (12). e0144727. ISSN 1932-6203
Abstract
Detrital zircon studies are providing new insights on the evolution of sedimentary basins but the role of sedimentary recycling remains largely undefined. In a broad region of northwestern North America, this contribution traces the pathway of detrital zircon sand grains from Proterozoic sandstones through Phanerozoic strata and argues for multi-stage sedimentary recycling over more than a billion years. As a test of our hypothesis, integrated palynology and detrital zircon provenance provides clear evidence for erosion of Carboniferous strata in the northern Cordillera as a sediment source for Upper Cretaceous strata. Our results help to calibrate Earth's sedimentary cycle by showing that recycling dominates sedimentary provenance for the refractory mineral zircon.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015, Hadlari et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Ecology & Global Change (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Dec 2015 10:47 |
Last Modified: | 23 Dec 2015 10:47 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144727 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
Identification Number: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0144727 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:92885 |