U–Pb Isotope Dating of Zircons and Other Methods in the Study of Provenance of Loess Deposits
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 276
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-400 Lublin, Poland
Interests: paleomagnetism and isotope dating of magmatic rocks; magnetostratigraphy of sedimentary rocks (Ordovician, Silurian, Permian, Triassic, Eocene, and Quaternary); provenance study of detrital minerals from the loess and older sedimentary rocks using Ar–Ar and U–Pb isotope methods; study of magnetic mineralogy and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in the loess for climate reconstruction and reconstruction of palaeowind directions; Neoproterozoic–Paleozoic paleogeography of Europe in the light of palaeomagnetic and isotope data
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue devoted to “U–Pb Isotope Dating of Zircons and Other Methods in the Study of Provenance of Loess Deposits” offers a forum to present new geochronological and geochemical data obtained from loess deposits. Loess deposits are important terrestrial sediment records providing key paleoclimate data. The nature of the deposition of loess and the distance its constituent dust has been transported have been discussed in various papers for a long time. Isotope studies of detrital zircons from loess are useful for indicating their provenance and the mode of loess genesis. The Sr–Nd and bulk element composition of loess can also provide valuable information about the sources of loess. It is important to expand our knowledge of provenance of loess, which will be helpful for further studies of past climate. We would like to encourage and invite you to prepare materials for publication in this Special Issue. In particular, we expect articles presenting provenance data from loess deposits with results of isotope dating of detrital minerals and effects of geochemical studies.
Prof. Dr. Jerzy Nawrocki
Dr. Thomas Stevens
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- loess
- detrital minerals
- provenance
- zircons
- U–Pb ages
- geochemistry
- past climate
