Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of the Career of William R. Dickinson
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Provenance of Permian eolian and related strata in the North American midcontinent: Tectonic and climatic controls on sediment dispersal in western tropical Pangea
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Published:December 28, 2018
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M.J. Soreghan, M.M. Swift, G.S. Soreghan, 2018. "Provenance of Permian eolian and related strata in the North American midcontinent: Tectonic and climatic controls on sediment dispersal in western tropical Pangea", Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of the Career of William R. Dickinson, Raymond V. Ingersoll, Timothy F. Lawton, Stephan A. Graham
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ABSTRACT
The Permian marks a time of substantial climatic and tectonic changes in the late Paleozoic. Gondwanan glaciation collapsed after its earliest Permian acme, aridification affected the equatorial region, and monsoonal conditions commenced and intensified. In western equatorial Pangea, deformation associated with the Ancestral Rocky Mountains continued, while the asynchronous collision between Laurentia and Gondwana produced the Central Pangean Mountains, including the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon orogens bordering eastern and southern Laurentia, completing the final stages of Pangean assembly. Permian red beds of the southern midcontinent archive an especially rich record of the Permian of western equatorial Pangea. Depositional patterns and detrital-zircon provenance...
- absolute age
- Appalachians
- Canadian Shield
- clastic rocks
- clastic sediments
- dates
- depositional environment
- eolian features
- eolianite
- Gondwana
- Grenville Province
- Guadalupian
- Kansas
- Kay County Oklahoma
- loess
- Lopingian
- Marathon Basin
- Marathon Geosyncline
- Mazatzal Orogeny
- Neoproterozoic
- nesosilicates
- North America
- Oklahoma
- orthosilicates
- Ouachita Orogeny
- paleoclimatology
- Paleoproterozoic
- Paleozoic
- Pangaea
- Permian
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- provenance
- Rocky Mountains
- sand
- sediment transport
- sedimentary rocks
- sediments
- silicates
- siltstone
- tectonics
- Texas
- transport
- U/Pb
- United States
- upper Paleozoic
- Upper Permian
- upper Precambrian
- Wellington Formation
- wind transport
- Yavapai Province
- zircon
- zircon group
- detrital zircon