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Late Jurassic Margin of Laurasia–A Record of Faulting Accommodating Plate Rotation
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Late Jurassic Margin of Laurasia–A Record of Faulting Accommodating Plate Rotation

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Thomas H. Anderson
Thomas H. Anderson
Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Alexei N. Didenko
Alexei N. Didenko
Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, Far Eastern Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk 680000, Russia, and Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow 119017, Russia
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Cari L. Johnson
Cari L. Johnson
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
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Alexander I. Khanchuk
Alexander I. Khanchuk
Far East Geological Institute, Far Eastern Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, 159, Prospekt 100-letiya Vladivostoku, Vladivostok 690022, Russia
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James H. MacDonald, Jr.
James H. MacDonald, Jr.
Department of Marine and Ecological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida 33965, USA
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Geological Society of America
Volume
513
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE513
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© 2015 Geological Society of America
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9780813725130
Publication date:
December 01, 2015
Book Chapter

Detrital zircon provenance of the eastern Gulf of Mexico subsurface: Constraints on Late Jurassic paleogeography and sediment dispersal of North America

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Amy L. Weislogel
Amy L. Weislogel
Department of Geology & Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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Bryan Hunt
Bryan Hunt
SandRidge Energy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, USA
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Andrea Lisi
Andrea Lisi
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Houston, Texas 77002, USA
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Thomas Lovell
Thomas Lovell
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Houston, Texas 77002, USA
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Delores M. Robinson
Delores M. Robinson
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, USA
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Doi:
https://doi.org/10.1130/2015.2513(02)
  • Published:
    December 01, 2015

Subsurface sandstone samples of the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) Norphlet Formation erg deposits and (Kimmeridgian) Haynesville Formation sabkha deposits were collected from wells in the eastern Gulf of Mexico for U-Pb detrital zircon provenance analysis. Norphlet Formation samples in southwestern Alabama are characterized by detrital zircon ages forming two dominant populations: (1) 265–480 Ma, associated with Paleozoic Taconic, Acadian, and Alleghanian orogenic events of eastern Laurentia, and (2) 950–1250 Ma, associated with the Grenville orogenies of eastern Laurentia. These detrital zircon ages indicate derivation from Laurentian and Laurentian-affinity sources, including erosion of Paleozoic strata of the remnant Alleghanian fold-and-thrust belt and...

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