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Leaving no zircon unturned: quantifying the impact of handpicking sharply faceted detrital zircon maximum depositional age analysis
Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic
Impact of Mexican Border rift structural inheritance on Laramide rivers of the Tornillo basin, west Texas (USA): Insights from detrital zircon provenance
ABSTRACT Detrital zircon U-Pb and (U-Th)/He ages from latest Cretaceous–Eocene strata of the Denver Basin provide novel insights into evolving sediment sourcing, recycling, and dispersal patterns during deposition in an intracontinental foreland basin. In total, 2464 U-Pb and 78 (U-Th)/He analyses of detrital zircons from 21 sandstone samples are presented from outcrop and drill core in the proximal and distal portions of the Denver Basin. Upper Cretaceous samples that predate uplift of the southern Front Range during the Laramide orogeny (Pierre Shale, Fox Hills Sandstone, and Laramie Formation) contain prominent Late Cretaceous (84–77 Ma), Jurassic (169–163 Ma), and Proterozoic (1.69–1.68 Ga) U-Pb ages, along with less abundant Paleozoic through Archean zircon grain ages. These grain ages are consistent with sources in the western U.S. Cordillera, including the Mesozoic Cordilleran magmatic arc and Yavapai-Mazatzal basement, with lesser contributions of Grenville and Appalachian zircon recycled from older sedimentary sequences. Mesozoic zircon (U-Th)/He ages confirm Cordilleran sources and/or recycling from the Sevier orogenic hinterland. Five of the 11 samples from syn-Laramide basin fill (latest Cretaceous–Paleocene D1 Sequence) and all five samples from the overlying Eocene D2 Sequence are dominated by 1.1–1.05 Ga zircon ages that are interpreted to reflect local derivation from the ca. 1.1 Ga Pikes Peak batholith. Corresponding late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic zircon (U-Th)/He ages are consistent with local sourcing from the southern Front Range that underwent limited Mesozoic–Cenozoic unroofing. The other six samples from the D1 Sequence yielded detrital zircon U-Pb ages similar to pre-Laramide units, with major U-Pb age peaks at ca. 1.7 and 1.4 Ga but lacking the 1.1 Ga age peak found in the other syn-Laramide samples. One of these samples yielded abundant Mesozoic and Paleozoic (U-Th)/He ages, including prominent Early and Late Cretaceous peaks. We propose that fill of the Denver Basin represents the interplay between locally derived sediment delivered by transverse drainages that emanated from the southern Front Range and a previously unrecognized, possibly extraregional, axial-fluvial system. Transverse alluvial-fluvial fans, preserved in proximal basin fill, record progressive unroofing of southern Front Range basement during D1 and D2 Sequence deposition. Deposits of the upper and lower D1 Sequence across the basin were derived from these fans that emanated from the southern Front Range. However, the finer-grained, middle portion of the D1 Sequence that spans the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary was deposited by both transverse (proximal basin fill) and axial (distal basin fill) fluvial systems that exhibit contrasting provenance signatures. Although both tectonic and climatic controls likely influenced the stratigraphic development of the Denver Basin, the migration of locally derived fans toward and then away from the thrust front suggests that uplift of the southern Front Range may have peaked at approximately the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the Middle to Late Jurassic Paradox Basin and Central Colorado trough: Paleogeographic implications for southwestern Laurentia
Reconciling along-strike disparity in slip displacement of the San Andreas fault, central California, USA
ABSTRACT Analysis of detrital zircon U-Pb ages from the Phanerozoic sedimentary record of central Colorado reveals variability in sediment transport pathways across the middle of the North American continent during the last 500 m.y. that reflects the tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the region. In total, we present 2222 detrital zircon U-Pb ages from 18 samples collected from a vertical transect in the vicinity of Colorado’s southern Front Range. Of these, 1792 analyses from 13 samples are published herein for the first time. Detrital zircon U-Pb age distributions display a considerable degree of variability that we interpret to reflect derivation from (1) local sediment sources along the southern Front Range or other areas within the Yavapai-Mazatzal Provinces, or (2) distant sediment sources (hundreds to thousands of kilometers), including northern, eastern, or southwestern Laurentia. Local sediment sources dominated during the Cambrian marine transgression onto the North American craton and during local mountain building associated with the formation of the Ancestral and modern Rocky Mountains. Distant sediment sources characterize the remaining ~75% of geologic time and reflect transcontinental sediment transport from the Appalachian or western Cordilleran orogenies. Sediment transport mechanisms to central Colorado are variable and include alluvial, fluvial, marine, and eolian processes, the latter including windblown volcanic ash from the distant mid-Cretaceous Cordilleran arc. Our results highlight the importance of active mountain building and developing topography in controlling sediment dispersal patterns. For example, locally derived sediment is predominantly associated with generation of topography during uplift of the Ancestral and modern Rocky Mountains, whereas sediment derived from distant sources reflects the migrating locus of orogenesis from the Appalachian orogen in the east to western Cordilleran orogenic belts in the west. Alternating episodes of local and distant sediment sources are suggestive of local-to-distant provenance cyclicity, with cycle boundaries occurring at fundamental transitions in sediment transport patterns. Thus, identifying provenance cycles in sedimentary successions can provide insight into variability in drainage networks, which in turn reflects tectonic or other exogenic forcing mechanisms in sediment routing systems.