Provenance signal variations caused by facies and tectonics: Zircon age and heavy mineral evidence from Miocene sand in the north-eastern North Sea Basin

Olivarius, Mette; Rasmussen, Erik S.; Siersma, Volkert; Knudsen, Christian; Kokfelt, Thomas F.; Keulen, Nynke

doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.09.010

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“…Ochoa et al ., ; Critelli et al ., ; Zaghloul et al ., ; Perri et al ., , ; Zhang et al ., ), and detrital zircon geochronology, with conclusions usually regarding tectonic controls (e.g. Sánchez Martínez et al ., ; A et al ., ; Lovell & Bowen, ; Bertotti et al ., ; Olivarius et al ., ).…”

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Tectonic activation, source area stratigraphy and provenance changes in a rift basin: the Early Cretaceous Tucano Basin (NE‐Brazil)

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Changes in sandstone and conglomerate maturity in tectonically active basins can be considered either as the product of climatic change or of tectonic restructuring of the feeder drainage system. Besides these regional controls, changes in the configuration of local sources can expressively affect basin fill composition. The Early Cretaceous fluvial successions of the Tucano Basin, a rift basin in northeastern Brazil related to the South Atlantic opening, contain one such case of abrupt change in maturity, marked by the passage from pebbly sandstone and conglomerate rich in quartz and quartzite fragments (Neocomian to Barremian São Sebastião Formation) to more feldspathic pebbly sandstone and conglomerate bearing pebbles of varied composition (Aptian Marizal Formation). Systematic analysis of stratigraphic and spatial variation in palaeocurrents and composition of pebbles and cobbles from both units, integrated with the recognition of fluvial and alluvial fan deposits distribution, revealed an abrupt decrease in maturity during the passage from the São Sebastião Formation to the Marizal Formation. This change is explained by exhumation of basement rocks and erosional removal of originally widespread Silurian to Jurassic sandstone and conglomerate units which were a major source of reworked vein quartz and quartzite pebbles to the São Sebastião Formation. Basin border faults activation during the deposition of the Marizal Formation caused adjacent basement uplift above the local erosional base level at the basin borders, whereas during the São Sebastião Formation deposition, the basin border fault scarps probably exposed mineralogically mature sedimentary units. The proposed model has important implications for interpreting changes in sediment maturity in rift basin successions, as similar results are expected where activation of basin border faults occurs after the erosional removal of older sedimentary or volcanic units that controlled syn-rift successions composition.

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“…Nilsen et al ., ; Ochoa et al ., ) or of tectonic restructuring of the feeder drainage system (e.g. Nilsen, ; Nilsen et al ., ; A et al ., ; Olivarius et al ., ).…”

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Tectonic activation, source area stratigraphy and provenance changes in a rift basin: the Early Cretaceous Tucano Basin (NE‐Brazil)

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“…Rossi et al, 2002). Valuable information about sedimentary direction during deposition is gained by reconstructing transport pathways, which provide useful knowledge when trying to locate hydrocarbon exploration targets (Olivarius et al, 2014). Most published works on the provenance of the Y-SH Basin have focused on the heavy minerals, sequence stratigraphic analysis, geochemistry and seismic profiles Wu, 1997;Huang et al, 2003;Yan et al, 2007;Xie et al, 2008;Xie, 2009;Xie and Fan, 2010;Lei et al, 2011;Wei et al, 2012).…”

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Provenance of Upper Miocene to Quaternary sediments in the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin, South China Sea: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb ages

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“…For offshore regions with limited data, like the SCS, detrital‐zircon U‐Pb geochronology can provide important clues to sedimentary provenance and basin evolution (e.g., Morton et al, ; Olivarius et al, ; Wang et al, ). The data can be used to resolve sediment transport routes and dispersal systems, and to constrain paleogeographic reconstructions (e.g., Fonneland et al, ; Olivarius et al, ). In the SCS, the limited number of provenance studies completed to date have focused mainly on Neogene successions in the northwest, in the Yinggehai and Qiongdongnan basins (Cao et al, ; Wang et al, ) and on the evolution of the adjacent Red River (Clift et al, ; Hoang et al, ).…”

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Using Detrital Zircon Geochronology to Constrain Paleogene Provenance and Its Relationship to Rifting in the Zhu 1 Depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea

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Bidgoli

et al. 2017

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Paleogene syn‐rift successions in the South China Sea are poorly understood and systematic provenance analysis, which could provide clues to their history, is lacking. Here we report 409 new concordant U‐Pb ages from detrital zircons separated from the Paleogene Wenchang, Enping, and Zhuhai formations in the Zhu 1 depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin. The new data, combined with the published age data from the region, document changes in the provenance of syn‐rift successions. Detrital zircons from the Eocene Wenchang Formation are unimodal, with Jurassic‐Cretaceous (180–80 Ma) ages making up >80% of grains. The ages are consistent with the geochronology of intrabasinal highs, dominated by igneous rocks emplaced during the Yanshanian orogeny, and suggest local provenance. By contrast, detrital zircons from the upper Eocene to lower Oligocene Enping Formation form three well‐recognized age‐clusters, with peaks at 150, 254, and 438 Ma that match documented tectonomagmatism in South China Block (SCB). Combined with increasing numbers of Precambrian zircons, the data suggest increasing influence of regional provenance of the SCB. Similar age peaks are also recognized from the limited number of zircons analyzed from the upper Oligocene Zhuhai Formation and comparability with modern shelf and river sediment indicates the unit was mainly sourced from the SCB and likely transported by a paleo‐Pearl River. We infer that the change in provenance, from local uplifts within the Zhu 1 to the SCB, is related to distinct phases of PRMB rift development; however, later changes are best explained by SCB drainage evolution.

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Provenance signal variations caused by facies and tectonics: Zircon age and heavy mineral evidence from Miocene sand in the north-eastern North Sea Basin

Cited by 42 publications

References 33 publications

Tectonic activation, source area stratigraphy and provenance changes in a rift basin: the Early Cretaceous Tucano Basin (NE‐Brazil)

Tectonic activation, source area stratigraphy and provenance changes in a rift basin: the Early Cretaceous Tucano Basin (NE‐Brazil)

Provenance of Upper Miocene to Quaternary sediments in the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin, South China Sea: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb ages

Using Detrital Zircon Geochronology to Constrain Paleogene Provenance and Its Relationship to Rifting in the Zhu 1 Depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea

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