Early Cretaceous continental-scale sediment routing, the McMurray Formation, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Alberta, Canada

AM Wahbi, MD Blum, CN Doerger - Bulletin, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Alternative depositional models for the Early Cretaceous McMurray Formation between a
dominantly continental and marginal marine settings remain a controversial topic. The …

Bias in detrital zircon geochronology: a review of sampling and non-sampling errors

GW Lowey - International Geology Review, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Detrital zircon (DZ) geochronology is based on a multistage, hierarchical sampling process
in which sampling errors (statistical variance) and non-sampling errors (sampling bias) are …

Resolving stratigraphic architecture and constraining ages of paralic strata in a low‐accommodation setting, Firebag Tributary, McMurray Formation, Canada

L Rinke‐Hardekopf, SE Dashtgard… - The Depositional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The McMurray Formation in McMurray Depocentre, Canada, is typically subdivided
into stratigraphic units based on regionally mappable marine mudstones, the bases of which …

U-Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Datangpo Formation, South China: Implications for Sturtian deglaciation age and Nanhua stratal provenance

X Ma, J Wang, TJ Algeo, Z Wang, Y Cen… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Neoproterozoic strata exposed in southwestern Hubei Province preserve vital
information for understanding the provenance of Cryogenian sedimentary rocks on the …

Acceleration in the rate of the Boreal Sea transgression recorded in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Canada

CCF Château, SE Dashtgard… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Depositional environments are typified as low-to high-accommodation space settings based
on the sediment accumulation rate. In low-accommodation settings, persistent top truncation …

Evolution of provenance and sedimentary records in multiphase rift basins: Insights from petrology, detrital zircon geochronology, and seismic reflections of Oligocene …

Y Qin, X Zhu, S Zhu, C Tan, S Zhang, J Zhu… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sedimentary provenance in multiphase rift basins exhibits rapid variations during distinct
tectonic sub-stages, and a close association exists between alterations in sediment source …

[HTML][HTML] Geochronology of reworked ash and its implications for accommodation space variations in distal foreland basins, McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada

SW Fietz, JL Crowley, JA MacEachern… - …, 2023 - oap.unige.ch
A bentonite bed consisting of reworked volcanic ash from the Barremian to Aptian lower
McMurray Formation is dated using chemical abrasion thermal ionization mass spectrometry …

High‐frequency temporal variability of provenance signal in the submarine fan with the narrow shelf: Insights from sediment delivery and formation of late Triassic …

M Tan, H Sun, Y Fu, H Cui, C Zhang - Basin Research, 2024 - earthdoc.org
The submarine fan with a narrow shelf is usually reactive to environmental signal
propagation; however, source‐to‐sink functioning can be further complicated by several …

Salt dissolution tectonism and origin of lacustrine carbonate beds: Mn‐Fe‐calcite and Mn‐siderite micro‐spherulite fabrics of the Lower Cretaceous McMurray …

PL Broughton - The Depositional Record, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Several lacustrine carbonate beds, each a metre‐thick interval of densely packed Mn‐rich
sideritic micro‐spherulites or Mn‐rich ferroan calcite micro‐spherulites, are recorded for the …

Revised stratigraphic position of a volcanic-ash-derived maximum depositional age in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation

PR Durkin, L Rinke-Hardekopf - Bulletin of Canadian …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The stratigraphic framework developed for the McMurray Formation and Wabiskaw Member
of the Clearwater Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) provides a consistent nomenclature …