The Evolution History of the Sedimentary Basin and Orogenesis: Insights from Detrital Provenance Analysis
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 May 2022) | Viewed by 4406
Special Issue Editor
Interests: provenance analysis; deep-time continental weathering; orogenesis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mountain and basin are two most important tectonic units on the Earth surface. The formation and inversion of sedimentary basins are tectonically interlinked with orogenesis. The evolution of sedimentary basins and orogenesis can be geologically archived by the detrital records eroded from mountains and deposited in sedimentary basins. These detrital records range from muds to gravels in size and deposited in various environments by alluvial, fluvial, lacustrine, and marine processes. They can be well-preserved and provide unique clues to track the evolution of sedimentary basins and orogenic processes. The way we studied them is basically through detrital provenance analysis.
Detrital provenance analysis combines various information about the production, transportation, source rock compositions of the detrital sediments. Involved methods include but are not limited to paleo-current measurement, framework composition analysis, and geochemical and isotopic analysis of bulk-rock and detrital single minerals. Detrital provenance analysis is greatly benefited from the development of in-situ analytical techniques and big-data statistical analysis. Multi-methods detrital provenance analysis can deepen our understanding of the basin evolution and orogenic processes.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to the disclosure of all the applications of detrital provenance analysis to track the evolution history of sedimentary basin and understand the orogenesis.
Dr. Jianghai Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- basin evolution
- orogenic processes
- provenance analysis
- sedimentary records
- detrital minerals
- source-to-sink