U–Pb detrital zircon evidence of transcontinental sediment dispersal: provenance of Late Mississippian Wedington Sandstone member, NW Arkansas

Xie, Xiangyang; Cains, Will; Manger, Walter L.

doi:10.1080/00206814.2016.1193775

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“…Right figure is a schematic profile across incised valley fill systems in the Illinois Basin (simplified from Smith & Read, ). Left figure shows the distribution and paleoflow directions of the Wedington sandstone in northwestern Arkansas (modified from Xie, Cains, et al, ).…”

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“…By comparison, the other Upper Mississippian samples show more complex age distributions, with fewer Grenville grains (32–46%) and higher and relatively uniform proportions of Yavapai‐Mazatzal grains (15–19%), similar to samples from the southern Appalachians (Figures and ). These age distributions have composite characteristics that suggest influence from both the regional Appalachian provenance and the local midcontinent provenance associated with structural highs like the Nemaha Uplift and the Ozark Dome, which may have been exposed in the Late Mississippian (Xie, O'Connor, et al, ; Xie, Cains, et al, ).…”

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“…The red dotted line represents the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon orogenic belt. Hugoton Embayment data are from this study; Grand Canyon data are from Gehrels et al (2011); Appalachian foreland data are from Thomas et al (2017) and references therein; Illinois Basin spectra are from Rothschild et al (2016) and Kissock (2016); Ozark Dome data are from Li (2016); and Arkoma Shelf data are from Xie, Cains, et al (2016), Pickell (2012), and this study.…”

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“…However, Cambrian through Middle Mississippian carbonates would have covered much of the region and are more likely to have provided carbonate materials as locally derived sediments. The extent to which underlying Precambrian basement rocks would have been exposed as a potential source is unknown, although limited studies have pointed to highs like the Nemaha Ridge as a source of first‐cycle zircons in age‐equivalent units (Xie, Cains, et al, ; Xie, O'Connor, et al, ). A second and associated question relates to the role of more distant clastic sources on the provenance of IVF systems and Upper Mississippian sandstones in the region.…”

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“…An increasing number of studies have focused their efforts on testing various aspects of the Gehrels et al () model (e.g., Finzel, ; Benyon et al, ; Lawton et al, ; Xie, O'Connor, et al, ; Xie, Cains, et al, ; Xie, Buratowski, et al, , Xie, Anthony, & Busbey, ; Xu et al, ; Thomas et al, ; Alsalem et al, ; Kissock et al, ). However, most of these published investigations have focused on Pennsylvanian and younger strata.…”

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Detrital Zircon Geochronologic Constraints on Patterns and Drivers of Continental‐Scale Sediment Dispersal in the Late Mississippian

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Bidgoli

2019

Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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The Late Mississippian was a critical time interval in Laurentia's history, marking the transition from carbonate deposition on a stable platform, during the Early to Middle Mississippian, to extensive clastic deposition in the Pennsylvanian to Permian associated with the Laurentia‐Gondwana collision. In the U.S. midcontinent, Chesterian incised valley fill (IVF) systems that developed within a carbonate‐dominated platform provide new insights on the patterns and drivers of continental‐scale sediment dispersal during this transitional period. Here we report 1,037 new concordant detrital zircon U‐Pb ages from nine samples of Uppper Mississippian sandstone collected from cores in southwestern Kansas and from outcrops in northwestern Arkansas. The sandstones are characterized by major age clusters corresponding to the Grenville (900–1,300 Ma) and Taconic‐Acadian (350–500 Ma) orogenies and minor older age groups, suggesting derivation from the Appalachian region. A compilation of published detrital zircon ages from Early Paleozoic sandstones as well as from temporally equivalent units across North America, including from the Appalachian Foreland Basin, Illinois Basin, Arkoma Shelf, Ozark Dome, Black Warrior Basin, and Grand Canyon, suggests Chesterian sandstone age distributions are distinct from those of older sandstones and are consistent with a change to a dominantly Appalachian age signature that was roughly synchronous across the continent. Together, the new and compiled ages support development of a generally E‐W transcontinental sediment dispersal system in the Late Mississippian that was likely controlled by orogenesis on the eastern Laurentian margin, while local variations in the age signatures appear to be controlled by N‐S drainage networks, influenced by glacioeustatic fluctuations and local structures.

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confidence: 99%