Estimation of source area, river paleo-discharge, paleoslope, and sediment budgets of linked deep-time depositional systems and implications for hydrocarbon …

JP Bhattacharya, P Copeland, TF Lawton… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The source-to-sink (S2S) concept is focused on quantification of the various components of
siliciclastic sedimentary systems from initial source sediment production areas, through the …

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

Key future directions for research on turbidity currents and their deposits

PJ Talling, J Allin, DA Armitage… - Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Turbidity currents, and other types of submarine sediment density flow, redistribute more
sediment across the surface of the Earth than any other sediment flow process, yet their …

Modification of the Western Gondwana craton by plume–lithosphere interaction

J Hu, L Liu, M Faccenda, Q Zhou, KM Fischer… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The longevity of cratons is generally attributed to persistence of neutrally-to-positively
buoyant and mechanically strong lithosphere that shields the cratonic crust from underlying …

[图书][B] Sediment routing systems: The fate of sediment from source to sink

PA Allen - 2017 - books.google.com
This cutting-edge summary combines ideas from several sub-disciplines including geology,
geomorphology, oceanography and geochemistry to provide an integrated view of Earth …

Secular craton evolution due to cyclic deformation of underlying dense mantle lithosphere

Y Wang, Z Cao, L Peng, L Liu, L Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The cratonic crust is the most long-lived tectonic unit on Earth. The longevity of Earth's
cratonic crust has been attributed to neutrally buoyant and mechanically strong lithospheric …

Onshore to offshore anatomy of a late Quaternary source-to-sink system (Po Plain–Adriatic Sea, Italy)

A Amorosi, V Maselli, F Trincardi - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
In understanding the evolution of siliciclastic systems, Late Quaternary analogs may enable
reliable predictive models of facies-tract architecture. The Po Plain–Adriatic Sea system …

Provenance of passive-margin sand (Southern Africa)

E Garzanti, P Vermeesch, M Padoan… - The Journal of …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
This study investigates the petrographic, mineralogical, geochronological, and geochemical
signatures of river sands across southern Africa. We single out the several factors that …

Times associated with source-to-sink propagation of environmental signals during landscape transience

S Tofelde, A Bernhardt, L Guerit… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sediment archives in the terrestrial and marine realm are regularly analyzed to infer
changes in climate, tectonic, or anthropogenic boundary conditions of the past. However …

The chronology and tectonic style of landscape evolution along the elevated Atlantic continental margin of South Africa resolved by joint apatite fission track and (U‐Th …

M Wildman, R Brown, R Beucher, C Persano… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Atlantic‐type continental margins have long been considered “passive” tectonic settings
throughout the entire postrift phase. Recent studies question the long‐term stability of these …