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Provenance - based on the presence of apatite, its mineral chemistry and/or fission tracks

Abu-Zeid, M.M., Baghdady, A.R., and El-Etr, H.A. (2001) Textural attributes, mineralogy and provenance of sand dune fields in the greater Al Ain area, United Arab Emirates. Journal of Arid Environments, 48(4), 475-499.

Andriessen, P.A.M. (1995) Fission-Track Analysis - Principles, Methodology and Implications for Tectonothermal Histories of Sedimentary Basins, Orogenic Belts, and Continental Margins. Geologie En Mijnbouw, 74(1), 1-12.

Barbieri, C., Carrapa, B., Di Giulio, A., Wijbrans, J., and Murrell, G.R. (2003) Provenance of Oligocene synorogenic sediments of the Ligurian Alps (NW Italy): inferences on belt age and cooling history. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 92(5), 758-778.

Bauluz, B., Mayayo, M.J., Fernandez-Nieto, C., and Lopez, J.M.G. (2000) Geochemistry of Precambrian and Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks from the Iberian Range (NE Spain): implications for source-area weathering, sorting, provenance, and tectonic setting. Chemical Geology, 168(1-2), 135-150.

Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., O'reilly, S.Y., and Fisher, N.I. (2002) Apatite as an indicator mineral for mineral exploration: trace-element compositions and their relationship to host rock type. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 76(1), 45-69.

Benedek, K., Nagy, Z.R., Dunkl, I., Szabo, C., and Jozsa, S. (2001) Petrographical, geochemical and geochronological constraints on igneous clasts and sediments hosted in the Oligo-Miocene Bakony Molasse, Hungary: evidence for a Paleo-Drava River system. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 90(3), 519-533.

Bock, B., Hurowitz, J.A., Mclennan, S.M., and Hanson, G.N. (2004) Scale and timing of rare earth element redistribution in the Taconian foreland of New England. Sedimentology, 51(4), 885-897.

Bouch, J.E., Hole, M.J., Trewin, N.H., and Morton, A.C. (1995) Low-Temperature Aqueous Mobility of the Rare-Earth Elements During Sandstone Diagenesis. Journal of the Geological Society, 152, 895-898.

Capedri, S., Venturelli, G., and Photiades, A. (2004) Accessory minerals and delta O-18 and delta C-13 of marbles from the Mediterranean area. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 5(1), 27-47.

Carter, A. (1999) Present status and future avenues of source region discrimination and characterization using fission track analysis. Sedimentary Geology, 124(1-4), 31-45.

Carter, A., and Bristow, C.S. (2000) Detrital zircon geochronology: enhancing the quality of sedimentary source information through improved methodology and combined U-Pb and fission-track techniques. Basin Research, 12(1), 47-57.

Christie, A.B., and Brathwaite, R.L. (2003) Hydrothermal alteration in metasedimentary rock-hosted orogenic gold deposits, Reefton goldfield, South Island, New Zealand. Mineralium Deposita, 38(1), 87-107.

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., and Hurford, A.J. (1996) Constraints on the evolution of the East Greenland Margin: Evidence from detrital apatite in offshore sediments. Geology, 24(11), 1013-1016.

Condie, K.C., Dengate, J., and Cullers, R.L. (1995) Behavior of Rare-Earth Elements in a Paleoweathering Profile on Granodiorite in the Front Range, Colorado, USA. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 59(2), 279-294.

Dean, M.C., Totten, M.W., and Falster, A.U. (1995) Separation of Heavy Minerals from Mudrocks. Journal of Sedimentary Research Section a-Sedimentary Petrology and Processes, 65(3), 563-566.

Delange, G.J. (1992) Distribution of Various Extracted Phosphorus-Compounds in the Interbedded Turbiditic Pelagic Sediments of the Madeira Abyssal-Plain, Eastern North-Atlantic. Marine Geology, 109(1-2), 115-139.

Dill, H.G. (1994) Can REE Patterns and U-Th Variations Be Used as a Tool to Determine the Origin of Apatite in Clastic Rocks. Sedimentary Geology, 92(3-4), 175-196.

-. (1995) Heavy Mineral Response to the Progradation of an Alluvial-Fan - Implications Concerning Unroofing of Source Area, Chemical-Weathering and Palaeo-Relief (Upper Cretaceous Parkstein Fan Complex, Se Germany). Sedimentary Geology, 95(1-2), 39-56.

-. (1998) A review of heavy minerals in clastic sediments with case studies from the alluvial-fan through the nearshore-marine environments. Earth-Science Reviews, 45(1-2), 103-132.

Donaldson, J.A., and De Kemp, E.A. (1998) Archaean quartz arenites in the Canadian shield: examples from the Superior and Churchill Provinces. Sedimentary Geology, 120(1-4), 153-176.

Dunkl, I. (2002) Trackkey: a Windows program for calculation and graphical presentation of fission track data. Computers & Geosciences, 28(1), 3-12.

Ehrenberg, S.N., Dalland, A., Nadeau, P.H., Mearns, E.W., and Amundsen, H.E.F. (1998) Origin of chlorite enrichment and neodymium isotopic anomalies in Haltenbanken sandstones. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 15(5), 403-425.

Ehrenberg, S.N., and Nadeau, P.H. (2002) Postdepositional Sm/Nd fractionation in sandstones: Implications for neodymium-isotope stratigraphy. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72(2), 304-315.

Ehrenberg, S.N., and Siring, E. (1992) Use of Bulk Chemical-Analyses in Stratigraphic Correlation of Sandstones - an Example from the Statfjord Nord Field, Norwegian Continental-Shelf. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 62(2), 318-330.

Fakhry, A.A., Eid, K.A., and Mahdy, A.A. (1998) Distribution of REE in shales overlying the Abu Tartur phosphorite deposit, western desert, Egypt. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 277, 929-933.

Faupl, P., Pavlopoulos, A., and Migiros, G. (1998) On the provenance of flysch deposits in the External Hellenides of mainland Greece: results from heavy mineral studies. Geological Magazine, 135(3), 421-442.

Felitsyn, S.B., and Gubanov, A.P. (2002) Nd isotope composition of early Cambrian discrete basins. Geological Magazine, 139(2), 159-169.

Frietsch, R., and Perdahl, J.A. (1995) Rare-Earth Elements in Apatite and Magnetite in Kiruna-Type Iron-Ores and Some Other Iron-Ore Types. Ore Geology Reviews, 9(6), 489-510.

Gallagher, K., Brown, R., and Johnson, C. (1998) Fission track analysis and its applications to geological problems. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 26, 519-572.

Garcia, D., Ravenne, C., Marechal, B., and Moutte, J. (2004) Geochemical variability induced by entrainment sorting: quantified signals for provenance analysis. Sedimentary Geology, 171(1-4), 113-128.

Gotze, J. (1998) Geochemistry and provenance of the Altendorf feldspathic sandstone in the Middle Bunter of the Thuringian basin (Germany). Chemical Geology, 150(1-2), 43-61.

Grapes, R., Roser, B., and Kashai, K. (2001) Composition of monocrystalline detrital and authigenic minerals, metamorphic grade, and provenance of Torlesse and Waipapa graywacke, central North Island, New Zealand. International Geology Review, 43(2), 139-175.

Grist, A.M., Reynolds, P.H., Zentilli, M., and Beaumont, C. (1992) The Scotian Basin Offshore Nova-Scotia - Thermal History and Provenance of Sandstones from Apatite Fission-Track and Ar-40/Ar-39 Data. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 29(5), 909-924.

Gunnell, Y. (2000) Apatite fission track thermochronology: an overview of its potential and limitations in geomorphology. Basin Research, 12(2), 115-132.

Hatton, O.J., and Davidson, G.J. (2004) Soldiers Cap Group iron-formations, Mt Isa Inlier, Australia, as windows into the hydrothermal evolution of a base-metal-bearing Proterozoic rift basin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 51(1), 85-106.

Hayward, B.W., and Smale, D. (1992) Heavy Minerals and the Provenance History of Waitemata Basin Sediments (Early Miocene, Northland, New-Zealand). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 35(2), 223-242.

Himeno, O., Ohira, H., Liu, Z.J., Jin, X., and Watanabe, K. (2001) Provenance ages of Cretaceous strata in the Songliao Basin, northeast China inferred fiom fission track data. International Geology Review, 43(10), 945-952.

Horton, B.K., Dupont-Nivet, G., Zhou, J., Waanders, G.L., Butler, R.F., and Wang, J. (2004) Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the Xining-Minhe and Dangchang basins, northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic results. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 109(B4), -.

Hurst, A., and Morton, A.C. (2001) Generic relationships in the mineral-chemical stratigraphy of turbidite sandstones. Journal of the Geological Society, 158, 401-404.

Hutchison, C.S., Bergman, S.C., Swauger, D.A., and Graves, J.E. (2000) A Miocene collisional belt in north Borneo: uplift mechanism and isostatic adjustment quantified by thermochronology. Journal of the Geological Society, 157, 783-793.

Khan, M.W.Y., and Mukherjee, A. (1993) Geochemical Constraints on the Genesis of Phosphorites of Chhattisgarh Basin, Durg District, Mp, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 41(4), 360-370.

Kohn, B.P., Feinstein, S., Foster, D.A., Steckler, M.S., and Eyal, M. (1997) Thermal history of the eastern Gulf of Suez, II. Reconstruction from apatite fission track and Ar-40/Ar-39 K-feldspar measurements. Tectonophysics, 283(1-4), 219-239.

Lang, L.O., and Stevens, R.L. (1999) Source, transport, and weathering influences upon grain-size and heavy mineral trends in glacial deposits of southwestern Sweden. Gff, 121, 145-153.

Lev, S.M., and Filer, J.K. (2004) Assessing the impact of black shale processes on REE and the U-Pb isotope system in the southern Appalachian Basin. Chemical Geology, 206(3-4), 393-406.

Lev, S.M., Mclennan, S.M., and Hanson, G.N. (1999) Mineralogic controls on REE mobility during black-shale diagenesis. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 69(5), 1071-1082.

Lev, S.M., Mclennan, S.M., Meyers, W.J., and Hanson, G.N. (1998) A petrographic approach for evaluating trace-element mobility in a black shale. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 68(5), 970-980.

Li, G., Ravenhurst, C.E., and Zentilli, M. (1995) Implications of Apatite Fission-Track Analysis for the Thermal History of the Scotian Basin, Offshore Nova-Scotia, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 43(2), 127-144.

Lihou, J.C., and Mangerajetzky, M.A. (1996) Provenance of the Sardona Flysch, eastern Swiss Alps: Example of high-resolution heavy mineral analysis applied to an ultrastable assemblage. Sedimentary Geology, 105(3-4), 141-157.

Maas, R., Kinny, P.D., Williams, I.S., Froude, D.O., and Compston, W. (1992) The Earths Oldest Known Crust - a Geochronological and Geochemical Study of 3900-4200 Ma Old Detrital Zircons from Mt Narryer and Jack Hills, Western-Australia. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 56(3), 1281-1300.

Mitchell, M.M. (1997) Identification of multiple detrital sources for Otway Supergroup sedimentary rocks: Implications for basin models and chronostratigraphic correlations. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44(6), 743-750.

Mitchell, M.M., Duddy, I.R., and O'sullivan, P.B. (1997) Reappraisal of the age and origin of the Casterton Formation, western Otway Basin, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44(6), 819-830.

Mongelli, G., Cullers, R.L., and Muelheisen, S. (1996) Geochemistry of Late Cretaceous Oligocenic shales from the Varicolori Formation, southern Apennines, Italy: Implications for mineralogical, grain-size control and provenance. European Journal of Mineralogy, 8(4), 733-754.

Morton, A.C. (1982) The provenance and diagenesis of Palaeogene sandstones of southeast England as indicated by heavy mineral analysis. Proceedings of the Geological Association of London, 93, 263-274.

-. (1984) Stability of Detrital Heavy Minerals in Tertiary Sandstones from the North-Sea Basin. Clay Minerals, 19(3), 287-308.

Morton, A.C., Davies, J.R., and Waters, R.A. (1992) Heavy Minerals as a Guide to Turbidite Provenance in the Lower Paleozoic Southern Welsh Basin - a Pilot-Study. Geological Magazine, 129(5), 573-580.

Morton, A.C., and Hallsworth, C. (1994) Identifying Provenance-Specific Features of Detrital Heavy Mineral Assemblages in Sandstones. Sedimentary Geology, 90(3-4), 241-256.

Morton, A.C., and Hallsworth, C.R. (1999) Processes controlling the composition of heavy mineral assemblages in sandstones. Sedimentary Geology, 124(1-4), 3-29.

Osullivan, P.B., Green, P.F., Bergman, S.C., Decker, J., Duddy, I.R., Gleadow, A.J.W., and Turner, D.L. (1993) Multiple Phases of Tertiary Uplift and Erosion in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, Revealed by Apatite Fission-Track Analysis. Aapg Bulletin-American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 77(3), 359-385.

Poppe, L.J., Commeau, J.A., and Valentine, P.C. (1991) Mineralogy of the Silt Fraction in Surficial Sediments from the Outer Continental-Shelf Off Southeastern New-England. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 61(1), 54-64.

Preston, J., Hartley, A., Mange-Rajetzky, M., Hole, M., May, G., Buck, S., and Vaughan, L. (2002) The provenance of Triassic continental sandstones from the Beryl Field, northern North Sea: Mineralogical, geochemical, and sedimentological constraints. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72(1), 18-29.

Ratcliffe, K.T., Wright, A.M., Hallsworth, C., Morton, A., Zaitlin, B.A., Potocki, D., and Wray, D.S. (2004) An example of alternative correlation techniques in a low-accommodation setting, nonmarine hydrocarbon system: The (Lower Cretaceous) Mannville Basal Quartz succession of southern Alberta. Aapg Bulletin, 88(10), 1419-1432.

Raza, A., Brown, R.W., Ballance, P.F., Hill, K.C., and Kamp, P.J.J. (1999a) Thermal history of the early Miocene Waitemata Basin and adjacent Waipapa Group, North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 42(2), 169-188.

-. (1999b) Thermal history of the early Miocene Waitemata Basin and adjacent Waipapa Group, North Island, New Zealand (vol 42, pg 169, 1999). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 42(3), 469-488.

Richter, D.K., Gotte, T., Gotze, J., and Neuser, R.D. (2003) Progress in application of cathodoluminescence (CL) in sedimentary petrology. Mineralogy and Petrology, 79(3-4), 127-166.

Ritts, B.D., Yue, Y.J., and Graham, S.A. (2004) Oligocene-Miocene tectonics and sedimentation along the Altyn Tagh Fault, northern Tibetan Plateau: Analysis of the Xorkol, Subei, and Aksay basins. Journal of Geology, 112(2), 207-229.

Rohrman, M., Andriessen, P., and Vanderbeek, P. (1996) The relationship between basin and margin thermal evolution assessed by fission track thermochronology: An application to offshore southern Norway. Basin Research, 8(1), 45-63.

Rostovtseva, Y.V., and Shapiro, M.N. (1998) Provenance of the Palaeocene-Eocene clastic rocks of the Komandorsky Islands. Sedimentology, 45(1), 201-216.

Schaltegger, U., Stille, P., Rais, N., Pique, A., and Clauer, N. (1994) Neodymium and Strontium Isotopic Dating of Diagenesis and Low-Grade Metamorphism of Argillaceous Sediments. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 58(5), 1471-1481.

Schneiderman, J.S., Chen, Z.Y., and Eckert, J.O. (2003) Heavy minerals and river channel migration in the Yangtze delta plain, eastern China. Journal of Coastal Research, 19(2), 326-335.

Sciunnach, D. (2001) Heavy mineral provinces as a tool for palaeogeographic reconstruction: A case study from the Buntsandstein of Nurra (NW Sardinia, Italy. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 94(2), 197-211.

Sha, L.K., and Chappell, B.W. (1999) Apatite chemical composition, determined by electron microprobe and laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, as a probe into granite petrogenesis. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 63(22), 3861-3881.

Sinclair, H.D., and Jaffey, N. (2001) Sedimentology of the Indus Group, Ladakh, northern India: implications for the timing of initiation of the palaeo-Indus River. Journal of the Geological Society, 158, 151-162.

Smedley, P.L. (1991) The Geochemistry of Rare-Earth Elements in Groundwater from the Carnmenellis Area, Southwest England. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 55(10), 2767-2779.

Stock, J.D., and Montgomery, D.R. (1996) Estimating palaeorelief from detrital mineral age ranges. Basin Research, 8(3), 317-327.

Sutriyono, E. (1998) Cenozoic thermotectonic history of the Sunda-Asri basin, southeast Sumatra: new insights from apatite fission track thermochronology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 16(5-6), 485-500.

Svendsen, J.B., and Hartley, N.R. (2002) Synthetic heavy mineral stratigraphy: applications and limitations. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 19(4), 389-405.

Tagami, T., and Dumitru, T.A. (1996) Provenance and thermal history of the Franciscan accretionary complex: Constraints from zircon fission track thermochronology. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 101(B5), 11353-11364.

Tagami, T., and Shimada, C. (1996) Natural long-term annealing of the zircon fission track system around a granitic pluton. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 101(B4), 8245-8255.

Thomson, S.N. (1994) Fission-Track Analysis and Provenance Studies in Calabrian Arc Sedimentary-Rocks, Southern Italy. Journal of the Geological Society, 151, 463-471.

Thomson, S.N., and Herve, F. (2002) New time constraints for the age of metamorphism at the ancestral Pacific Gondwana margin of southern Chile (42-52 degrees S). Revista Geologica De Chile, 29(2), 255-271.

Trautwein, B. (2003) Accretion versus subduction erosion along the northern margin of the Eastern Alps - evidences from zircon and apatite fission-track geochronology. Neues Jahrbuch Fur Geologie Und Palaontologie-Abhandlungen, 230(2-3), 331-357.

Turner, S.P., Adams, C.J., Flottmann, T., and Foden, J.D. (1993) Geochemical and Geochronological Constraints on the Glenelg River Complex, Western Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40(3), 275-292.

Van De Kamp, P.C., and Leake, B.E. (1996) Petrology, geochemistry, and Na metasomatism of Triassic-Jurassic non-marine clastic sediments in the Newark, Hartford, and Deerfield rift basins, northeastern USA. Chemical Geology, 133(1-4), 89-124.

Van Der Wateren, F.M., and Dunai, T.J. (2001) Late Neogene passive margin denudation history - cosmogenic isotope measurements from the central Namib desert. Global and Planetary Change, 30(3-4), 271-307.

Vincent, S.J. (2001) The Sis palaeovalley: a record of proximal fluvial sedimentation and drainage basin development in response to Pyrenean mountain building. Sedimentology, 48(6), 1235-1276.

Weiland, R.J., and Cloos, M. (1996) Pliocene-pleistocene asymmetric unroofing of the Irian fold belt, Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Apatite fission-track thermochronology. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 108(11), 1438-1449.

Whitham, A.G., Morton, A.C., and Fanning, C.M. (2004) Insights into Cretaceous-Palaeogene sediment transport paths and basin evolution in the North Atlantic from a heavy mineral study of sandstones from southern East Greenland. Petroleum Geoscience, 10(1), 61-72.

Wopenka, B., Popelka, R., Pasteris, J.D., and Rotroff, S. (2002) Understanding the mineralogical composition of Ancient Greek pottery through Raman microprobe spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy, 56(10), 1320-1328.

Yan, X.P., Kerrich, R., and Hendry, M.J. (2000) Trace element geochemistry of a thick till and clay-rich aquitard sequence, Saskatchewan, Canada. Chemical Geology, 164(1-2), 93-120.

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Wang, Y.J., Guo, F., Li, Z.A., Li, X.M., and Zhao, C.B. (2003) Apatite fission track age of Mesozoic sandstones from Beipiao basin, eastern China: Implications for basin provenance and tectonic evolution. Geochemical Journal, 37(3), 377-389.

Yang, S.Y., Jung, H.S., Choi, M.S., and Li, C.X. (2002) The rare earth element compositions of the Changjiang (Yangtze) and Huanghe (Yellow) river sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 201(2), 407-419.


Darrell Henry
is the Campanile Charities Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University whose research specialty is metamorphic petrology. Further details of his professional background are included in an accompanying vita or faculty profile.

To contact Darrell Henry call (225)-578-2693, fax (225)-578-2302 or e-mail dhenry@geol.lsu.edu . Address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

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