Exploring the influence of Late Mississippian to Middle Pennsylvanian tectonics on sediment transport through detrital zircon geochronology, southwestern Kansas and northwestern Arkansas

Wang, Wei; Bidgoli, Tandis S.; Sturmer, Daniel M.

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110750

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“…Paleogeographic maps and sediment dispersal in the Greater Permian Basin during (a) early Wolfcampian (synorogenic stage) and (b) late Leonardian (post‐orogenic stage). The schematic sediment dispersal map is based on previous studies (Gao, Perez, et al, 2020; Gehrels et al, 2011; Lawton et al, 2021; Liu et al, 2021; Soreghan & Soreghan, 2013; Soto‐Kerans et al, 2020; Thomas et al, 2020; Waite et al, 2020; Wang & Bidgoli, 2019; Wang et al, 2022; Xie et al, 2019) and core–rim ages reported in this study. Permission for using copyrighted early Wolfcampian and late Leonardian time slices of the Greater Permian Basin created by Colorado Plateau Geosystems Inc. is gratefully acknowledged.…”

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“…The primary reason is that the assemblage of the Pangea supercontinent made the Appalachians and Mexico as the orogenic hinterland, and both these two regions with similar basement age groups can be potential sources for the study area. Group A grains (500–260 Ma) are ubiquitous in the AOM foreland and the intracratonic basins of Laurentia (Figures 5 and 7; Allred & Blum, 2021; Gehrels et al, 2011; Lawton et al, 2021; Thomas et al, 2017; Wang et al, 2022). These grains are commonly thought to be derived from Taconian (490–440 Ma), Acadian (420–350 Ma) and Alleghenian (330–270 Ma) regional magmatism and metamorphism in the Appalachians (e.g.…”

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“…These assemblages are the basis of using core–rim pairs to reconstruct the sediment dispersal because synorogenic wedges are dominated by the proximal source from the orogenic hinterland. Whereas the middle and eastern of the Ouachita foreland is dominated by Laurentian cratonic and southern Appalachian sources (Thomas et al, 2021; Wang et al, 2022; Xie et al, 2016), the western Ouachita foreland (Fort Worth Basin) and Marathon foreland are dominated by the source from Gondwanan terranes in Mexico (Liu & Stockli, 2020; Soto‐Kerans et al, 2020). This Gondwanan source is dominated by 800–500 Ma rims with Grenville‐age cores (Cluster B; Figure 8d).…”

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Decoding post‐orogenic sediment recycling and dispersal using detrital zircon core and rim ages

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Detrital zircon (DZ) geochronology has become a popular tool in provenance studies during the past two decades. However, similar zircon crystallization ages from different source regions greatly hamper the interpretation of sediment dispersal and recycling processes. The Alleghenian–Ouachita–Marathon (AOM) foreland and vicinity in North America is a region where some dominant DZ age groups could come from both the southern Appalachians in the eastern United States and the Gondwanan terranes in Mexico. In this study, we present 1045 new DZ U–Pb ages and 81 DZ core–rim age pairs in lower Permian sandstone in the Permian Basin and Miocene sandstone in the eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM). These new data were integrated with published DZ single U–Pb age and core–rim ages from syn‐ to post‐orogenic strata in the Permian Basin, Marathon foldbelt, southern Appalachian foreland basin and eastern GOM to interpret the sediment‐dispersal models in the AOM foreland and eastern GOM. Our models show that during the Leonardian Stage, sediments derived from the Appalachians were first delivered to the US midcontinent and then recycled to the Permian Basin; during the Miocene, sediment from the Appalachians fluxed to the eastern GOM, with no longshore mixing from the western GOM. These models based on the integration of single U–Pb and core–rim ages are consistent with published results that used other methods, including zircon single U–Pb age, zircon Hf isotopic data, zircon (U–Th)/He age, sedimentology and stratigraphy. Our results demonstrate that although some limitations exist, zircon core–rim age is a powerful tool, adding an extra constraint on the interpretation of sediment‐dispersal systems. This tool is particularly applicable to the post‐orogenic stage, during which the sediment pathways are more complicated because of the dominant input from distal sources. Insights gained in this study imply that this novel strategy of using core and rim ages could be integrated with other methods to better understand sediment dispersal.

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Decoding post‐orogenic sediment recycling and dispersal using detrital zircon core and rim ages

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Geology of the Ouachita Mountains and linkages to North American late Paleozoic orogenesis

McKay*,

Jackson Jr.

2024

Field Guides to the Ozarks: Exploring Karst, Ore, Trace Fossils, and Orogenesis

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Correlations of Paleozoic strata from the southern Appalachian, Black Warrior, and Ouachita-Arkoma forelands show varying lithofacies and stratigraphic thicknesses for coeval deposits, as well as differences in the location of disconformities. This field trip will visit stops throughout the Ouachita Mountains and Arkoma basin to observe clastic strata variability in the Cambrian, Ordovician–Silurian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian periods. The spatial-temporal relationship between these units provides a first-order understanding of orogenic processes along the southeastern and southern Laurentian margin during the amalgamation of the supercontinent Pangea. We present a summary of detrital zircon geochronology from the three foreland systems and correlative stops in the Ouachita Mountains to discuss sediment provenance, paleo-reconstructions, and to identify needed geochronology information for future studies. Cambrian through Devonian units in the southern Appalachian foreland of Alabama and Ouachita thrust belt are dominated by Proterozoic Grenville (1250–900 Ma) and Granite-Rhyolite (1550–1300 Ma) province grains, with minor Archean grains. Mississippian and Pennsylvanian units in the southern Appalachian and Ouachita-Arkoma forelands exhibit similar age spectra and are primarily characterized by a dominant Grenville peak, alongside smaller Appalachian (490–270 Ma), Granite-Rhyolite, Yavapai-Mazatzal (1800–1600 Ma), and Wyoming (>2400 Ma) peaks. Proportional differences in the age spectra can be identified when comparing individual stratigraphic intervals in the forelands, and have been interpreted to represent influxes of different drainage systems associated with along strike versus perpendicular sediment routing. Mississippian strata in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkoma basin, and Black Warrior basin exhibit unique age spectra in comparison to other Ouachita and southern Appalachian signatures. A dominant Appalachian peak (<480 Ma), alongside smaller Grenville, Granite-Rhyolite, Yavapai-Mazatzal, and Wyoming peaks identified in the Batesville Sandstone of the Ouachita-Arkoma foreland, suggests a possible connection to barrier island depositional systems to the east. Pennsylvanian strata in the Black Warrior basin exhibit similar age spectra to those of samples from the southern Appalachian and Ouachita-Arkoma forelands.

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Late Paleozoic cratonal sink: Distally sourced sediment filled the Anadarko Basin (USA) from multiple source regions

Kushner

Soreghan

2022

Geosphere

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The Anadarko Basin (south-central USA) is the deepest basin on the North American craton and occupies a region largely surrounded by major, late Paleozoic plate-margin (Marathon-Ouachita-Appalachian) and intraplate (Ancestral Rocky Mountains) orogenic systems, albeit a distal arm of the latter. The Anadarko Basin hosts an exceptionally voluminous record of Pennsylvanian strata, and much of this fill has been attributed to erosion of the adjacent Wichita uplift—composed of granitic and rhyolitic rocks of Cambrian age—separated from the basin by a fault zone exhibiting 12 km of vertical separation. This work incorporates thin-section petrography (102 samples) and U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology of sandstone samples (12 samples) from core and outcrop of the Middle Pennsylvanian Red Fork Sandstone (and equivalents) as well as slightly younger Upper Pennsylvanian units (Tonkawa, Chelsea, and Gypsy sandstones) in order to interpret drainage pathways and evolution of those pathways toward and into the Anadarko Basin (Oklahoma) and evaluate the relative importance of the major provenance regions. Our petrographic analysis indicates sandstones with arkosic compositions are limited to the region immediately adjacent to (north of) the Wichita uplift. All remaining samples, which reflect the vast bulk of sediment in the depocenter, including sediment on the northern and eastern Anadarko shelf, are litharenites. Analysis of kernel density plots of the U-Pb ages of detrital zircons together with multidimensional scaling analysis of the Middle Pennsylvanian samples indicate three groups of similar provenance: (1) samples dominated by Cambrian ages from locations directly adjacent to the Wichita uplift; (2) samples dominated by Neoproterozoic ages from locations along the northern shelf of the Anadarko Basin; and (3) samples dominated by Mesoproterozoic ages from locations along the eastern Anadarko shelf and the basin center. These samples are spatially discrete, indicating partitioning of drainage networks during the Middle Pennsylvanian, with two continental-scale fluvial systems entering the Anadarko Basin from the north (transversely) and east (axially). The lack of Cambrian ages in the depocenter and (northern) shelf samples indicate that the Wichita uplift supplied only limited sediment to the basin; sediment derived from the uplift was trapped in fringing fans directly adjacent to the uplift. In contrast to the patterns exhibited by the Middle Pennsylvanian samples, Upper Pennsylvanian samples exhibit more uniform U-Pb ages across the basin. This indicates the relatively rapid evolution of the Appalachian-derived northerly and easterly drainages into an integrated system that flowed axially across the (overfilled) mid-continent basins to the ultimate continental sink in the Anadarko Basin.

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Exploring the influence of Late Mississippian to Middle Pennsylvanian tectonics on sediment transport through detrital zircon geochronology, southwestern Kansas and northwestern Arkansas

Cited by 5 publications

References 52 publications

Decoding post‐orogenic sediment recycling and dispersal using detrital zircon core and rim ages

Decoding post‐orogenic sediment recycling and dispersal using detrital zircon core and rim ages

Geology of the Ouachita Mountains and linkages to North American late Paleozoic orogenesis

Late Paleozoic cratonal sink: Distally sourced sediment filled the Anadarko Basin (USA) from multiple source regions

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