Sediment Provenance

Influences on Compositional Change from Source to Sink

Rajat Mazumder

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780128033876
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

Sediment Provenance: Influences on Compositional Change from Source to Sink provides a thorough and inclusive overview that features data-based case studies on a broad range of dynamic aspects in sedimentary rock structure and deposition. Provenance data plays a critical role in a number of aspects of sedimentary rocks, including the assessment of palaeogeographic reconstructions, the constraints of lateral displacements in orogens, the characterization of crust which is no longer exposed, the mapping of depositional systems, sub-surface correlation, and in predicting reservoir quality.

The provenance of fine-grained sediments—on a global scale—has been used to monitor crustal evolution, and sediment transport is paramount in considering restoration techniques for both watershed and river restoration. Transport is responsible for erosion, bank undercutting, sandbar formation, aggradation, gullying, and plugging, as well as bed form migration and generation of primary sedimentary structures.

Additionally, the quest for reservoir quality in contemporary hydrocarbon exploration and extraction necessitates a deliberate focus on diagenesis. This book addresses all of these challenges and arms geoscientists with an all-in-one reference to sedimentary rocks, from source to deposition.

• Provides the latest data available on various aspects of sedimentary rocks from their source to deposition
• Features case studies throughout that illustrate new data and critical analyses of published data by some of the world's most pre-eminent sedimentologists
• Includes more than 150 illustrations, photos, figures, and diagrams that underscore key concepts

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contributors
• Chapter 1. Sediment Provenance: Influence on Compositional Change From Source to Sink
• Chapter 2. Evolution of Siliciclastic Provenance Inquiries: A Critical Appraisal
• Chapter 3. Tracing the Source of the Bio/Siliciclastic Beach Sands at Rosa Marina (Apulian Coast, SE Italy)
• Chapter 4. Changes in the Heavy-Mineral Spectra on Their Way From Various Sources to Joint Sinks: A Case Study of Pleistocene Sandurs and an Ice-Marginal Valley in Northwest Poland
• Chapter 5. Reconstructions of Paleohydraulic Conditions From Primary Sedimentary Structures: Problems and Implications for Sediment Provenance
• Chapter 6. Physico-Chemical Characteristics of the Barremian-Aptian Siliciclastic Rocks in the Pondicherry Embryonic Rift Sub-basin, India
• Chapter 7. Petrological and Geochemical Constraints on Provenance, Paleoweathering, and Tectonic Setting of Clastic Sediments From the Neogene Lambir and Sibuti Formations, Northwest Borneo
• Chapter 8. What Are the Origins of V-Shaped (Chevron) Dunes in Madagascar? The Case for Their Deposition by a Holocene Megatsunami
• Chapter 9. The Contourite Problem
• Chapter 10. Fluvial Systems, Provenance, and Reservoir Development in the Eocene Brennan Basin Member of the Duchesne River Formation, Northern Uinta Basin, Utah
• Chapter 11. Changes in the Shape of Breccia Lenses Sliding From Source to Sink in the Cambrian Epeiric Sea of the North China Platform
• Chapter 12. Provenance of Chert Rudites and Arenites in the Northern Canadian Cordillera
• Chapter 13. Late Neoproterozoic to Early Mesozoic Sedimentary Rocks of the Tasmanides, Eastern Australia: Provenance Switching Associated With Development of the East Gondwana Active Margin
• Chapter 14. Utility of Detrital Zircon Grains From Upper Amphibolite Facies Rocks of the Grenville Supergroup, Adirondack Lowlands, Northeastern United States
• Chapter 15. Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology, Nd Isotope Mapping, and Sediment Geochemistry From the Singhora Group, Central India: Implications Toward Provenance, Its Shift, and Regional Stratigraphic Correlation
• Chapter 16. Deciphering Sedimentary Provenance and Timing of Sedimentation From a Suite of Metapelites From the Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex, India: Implications for Proterozoic Tectonics in the East-Central Part of the Indian Shield
• Chapter 17. SEM-CL Fabric Analysis of Quartz Framework Population From the Mesoarchean Keonjhar Quartzite From Singhbhum Craton, Eastern India: Implications for the Understanding of the Upper Continental Crust
• Chapter 18. Provenance of Detrital Pyrite in Archean Sedimentary Rocks: Examples From the Witwatersrand Basin
• Chapter 19. Ice Ages in Earth History: Puzzling Paleolatitudes and Regional Provenance of Ice Sheets on an Evolving Planet
• Chapter 20. The Isua Supracrustal Belt of the North Atlantic Craton (Greenland): Spotlight on Sedimentary Systems With the Oldest Preserved Sedimentary Structures (∼3.7, ∼3.75, and ∼3.8Ga)
• Index