Needles in a haystack: Detrital zircon UPb ages and the maximum depositional age of modern global sediment

GR Sharman, MA Malkowski - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The practice of using the youngest detrital grains from a sedimentary deposit to constrain its
depositional age has grown rapidly over the past two decades. Researchers that use the …

A chronostratigraphic framework for the upper Stormberg Group: implications for the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in southern Africa

EM Bordy, M Abrahams, GR Sharman, PA Viglietti… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The upper Stormberg Group (Elliot and Clarens formations) of the main Karoo
Basin is well-known for its fossil vertebrate fauna, comprising early branching members of …

[HTML][HTML] Maximum depositional age estimation revisited

P Vermeesch - Geoscience Frontiers, 2021 - Elsevier
In a recent review published in this journal, Coutts et al.(2019) compared nine different ways
to estimate the maximum depositional age (MDA) of siliclastic rocks by means of detrital …

U-Pb zircon geochronology and depositional age models for the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA): Implications for Late …

C Rasmussen, R Mundil, RB Irmis, D Geisler… - GSA …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Upper Triassic Chinle Formation is a critical non-marine archive of low-
paleolatitude biotic and environmental change in southwestern North America. The well …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the chronostratigraphic framework of the Transvaal Supergroup (South Africa) through in-situ and high-precision U-Pb geochronology

MH Senger, J Davies, M Ovtcharova, N Beukes… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Transvaal Supergroup, on the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa, is widely
accepted as one of the best-preserved sedimentary archives to constrain planetary-scale …

New evidence for the Baltican cratonic affinity and Tonian to Ediacaran tectonic evolution of West Avalonia in the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada

LP Beranek, AD Hutter, S Pearcey, C James… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Provenance studies of quartzite clasts and enclosing sandstone units in the Avalon
Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada, were conducted to test the Baltican or Gondwanan …

Empirical record, geochronology and theoretical determinates of Mesozoic climate in the Junggar Basin, NW China, in relation to other basins in NE China

PE Olsen, J Sha, Y Fang, C Chang… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
Mesozoic continental basins of northern China, including the Junggar Basin, provide some
of the most spectacular and important fossil assemblages in the world, but their climatic and …

Northward dispersal of dinosaurs from Gondwana to Greenland at the mid-Norian (215–212 Ma, Late Triassic) dip in atmospheric pCO2

DV Kent, LB Clemmensen - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The earliest dinosaurs (theropods and sauropodomorphs) are found in fossiliferous early
Late Triassic strata dated to about 230 million years ago (Ma), mainly in northwestern …

[HTML][HTML] A crucial geologic test of Late Jurassic exotic collision versus endemic re-accretion in the Klamath Mountains Province, western United States, with …

TA LaMaskin, JA Rivas, DL Barbeau… - GSA …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Differing interpretations of geophysical and geologic data have led to debate regarding
continent-scale plate configuration, subduction polarity, and timing of collisional events on …

Revised age and regional correlations of Cenozoic strata on Bat Mountain, Death Valley region, California, USA, from zircon U-Pb geochronology of sandstones and …

TM Schwartz, AK Souders, JE Lundstern… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Basin analysis and tectonic reconstructions of the Cenozoic history of the Death Valley
region, California, USA, are hindered by a lack of volcanic (tuff) age control in many …