Mesozoic of the Gulf Rim and Beyond: New Progress in Science and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico Basin

Triassic-Jurassic Provenance Signatures in the Nascent Eastern Gulf of Mexico Region from Detrital Zircon Geochronology
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Published:December 01, 2016
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Amy L. Weislogel, Kory S. Wiley, S. Bowman, Delores M. Robinson, 2016. "Triassic-Jurassic Provenance Signatures in the Nascent Eastern Gulf of Mexico Region from Detrital Zircon Geochronology", Mesozoic of the Gulf Rim and Beyond: New Progress in Science and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico Basin, Christopher M. Lowery, John W. Snedden, Norman C. Rosen
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Abstract
By comparing new detrital zircon provenance analysis of Triassic synrift sediments from the Tallahassee graben (FL), the South Georgia rift basin (GA), and Deep River rift basin (NC) with our previous detrital zircon provenance data for the Jurassic Norphlet Formation erg in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, we have developed a regional model of Triassic-Jurassic erosion and sediment transport. In the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, detrital zircon ages observed in Triassic synrift clastics from the Tallahassee graben and southern South Georgia rift system contain not only Gondwanan-aged and Grenville-aged zircon grains but also an abundance of Paleozoic detrital zircon...
- absolute age
- accretion
- Atlantic Ocean
- Black Warrior Basin
- dates
- Eastern U.S.
- erosion
- Gondwana
- Grenvillian Orogeny
- Gulf of Mexico
- Haynesville Formation
- Jurassic
- Laurentia
- mass spectra
- Mesozoic
- nesosilicates
- Norphlet Formation
- North Atlantic
- orthosilicates
- paleogeography
- Paleozoic
- Precambrian
- provenance
- rifting
- sediment transport
- sediments
- silicates
- Southeastern U.S.
- spectra
- syntectonic processes
- tectonics
- transport
- Triassic
- United States
- Upper Jurassic
- zircon
- zircon group
- Deep River basin
- Conecuh Embayment
- Suwannee Terrane
- Apalachicola Basin
- eastern Gulf of Mexico
- Talladega Belt
- detrital zircon
- Tallahassee Graben
- South Georgia Rift