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Provenance - based on the presence of biotite, its mineral chemistry and/or isotopes

Abdel-Rahman, A.F.M. (1994) Nature of Biotites from Alkaline, Calc-Alkaline, and Peraluminous Magmas. Journal of Petrology, 35(2), 525-541.

-. (1996) Nature of biotites in alkaline, calc-alkaline and peraluminous magmas - Discussion. Journal of Petrology, 37(5), 1031-1035.

Andersen, T., Maijer, C., and Verschure, R.H. (1995) Metamorphism, Provenance Ages, and Source Characteristics of Precambrian Clastic Sediments in the Bamble Sector, Southern Norway - Ar, Sr, Nd, and Pb Isotope Study. Petrology, 3(4), 321-339.

Andersson, P.O.D., Johansson, A., and Kumpulainen, R.A. (2003) Sm-Nd isotope evidence for the provenance of the Skoorsteenberg Formation, Karoo Supergroup, South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 36(3), 173-183.

Aronson, J.L., and Lewis, T.L. (1994) Ages of Detrital White Mica from Devonian Pennsylvanian Strata of the North Central Appalachian Basin - Dominance of the Acadian Orogen as Provenance. Journal of Geology, 102(6), 685-696.

Batchelor, R.A. (2003) Geochemistry of biotite in metabentonites as an age discriminant, indicator of regional magma sources and potential correlating tool. Mineralogical Magazine, 67(4), 807-817.

Blackbourn, G.A., and Thomson, M.E. (2000) Britannia Field, UR North Sea: petrographic constraints on Lower Cretaceous provenance, facies and the origin of slurry-flow deposits. Petroleum Geoscience, 6(4), 329-343.

Cohen, H.A., Hall, C.M., and Lundberg, N. (1995) Ar-40/Ar-39 Dating of Detrital Grains Constrains the Provenance and Stratigraphy of the Gravina Belt, Southeastern Alaska. Journal of Geology, 103(3), 327-337.

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.

Critelli, S., Rumelhart, P.E., and Ingersoll, R.V. (1995) Petrofacies and Provenance of the Puente Formation (Middle to Upper Miocene), Los-Angeles Basin, Southern California - Implications for Rapid Uplift and Accumulation Rates. Journal of Sedimentary Research Section a-Sedimentary Petrology and Processes, 65(4), 656-667.

Cullers, R.L. (1994) The Chemical Signature of Source Rocks in Size Fractions of Holocene Stream Sediment Derived from Metamorphic Rocks in the Wet Mountains Region, Colorado, USA. Chemical Geology, 113(3-4), 327-343.

Dallmeyer, R.D., and Takasu, A. (1992) Ar-40 Ar-39 Ages of Detrital Muscovite and Whole-Rock Slate Phyllite, Narragansett Basin, Ri-Ma, USA - Implications for Rejuvenation During Very Low-Grade Metamorphism. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 110(4), 515-527.

Dorais, M.J., and Shriner, C.M. (2002) A comparative electron microprobe study of "Aeginetan" wares with potential raw material sources from Aegina, Methana, and Poros, Greece. Geoarchaeology-an International Journal, 17(6), 555-577.

Dorr, W., Floyd, P.A., and Leveridge, B.E. (1999) U-Pb ages and geochemistry of granite pebbles from the Devonian Menaver Conglomerate, Lizard peninsula: provenance of Rhenohercynian flysch of SW England. Sedimentary Geology, 124(1-4), 131-147.

Dutton, S.P. (1993) Influence of Provenance and Burial History on Diagenesis of Lower Cretaceous Frontier Formation Sandstones, Green River Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 63(4), 665-677.

Erdmer, P., Heaman, L., Creaser, R.A., Thompson, R.L., and Daughtry, K.L. (2001) Eocambrian granite clasts in southern British Columbia shed light on Cordilleran hinterland crust. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 38(7), 1007-1016.

Evans, J.A. (1992) Geochemical and Isotope Composition of Pebbles from the Caban Conglomerate Formation and Their Bearing on the Source of Welsh Paleozoic Sedimentary-Rocks. Geological Magazine, 129(5), 581-587.

Girty, G.H., Marsh, J., Meltzner, A., Mcconnell, J.R., Nygren, D., Nygren, J., Prince, G.M., Randall, K., Johnson, D., Heitman, B., and Nielsen, J. (2003) Assessing changes in elemental mass as a result of chemical weathering of granodiorite in a Mediterranean (hot summer) climate. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 73(3), 434-443.

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.

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.

Henry, D.J., and Guidotti, C.V. (2002) Titanium in biotite from metapelitic rocks: Temperature effects, crystal-chemical controls, and petrologic applications. American Mineralogist, 87(4), 375-382. (pdf of article)

Henry, D.J., Guidotti, C.V., and Thomson, J.A. (2005) The Ti-saturation surface for low-to-medium pressure metapelitic biotites: Implications for geothermometry and Ti-substitution mechanisms. American Mineralogist, 90(2-3), 316-328. (pdf of article)

Ilyina, L.S., and Krinari, G.A. (1996) Eolian (aerial) material in the Southern Urals mountain forest soils. Eurasian Soil Science, 28(12), 45-60.

Legault, M.I., and Hattori, K. (1994) Provenance of Igneous Clasts in Conglomerates of the Archean Timiskaming Group, Kirkland Lake Area, Abitibi Greenstone-Belt, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 31(12), 1749-1762.

Li, Z., Li, R.W., Sun, S., and Zhang, W.H. (2001) Rb-Sr chronological characteristics of Jurassic granitoid gravels in north margin of Dabie block, Central China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 46(13), 1126-1129.

Linn, A.M., Depaolo, D.J., and Ingersoll, R.V. (1992) Nd-Sr Isotopic, Geochemical, and Petrographic Stratigraphy and Paleotectonic Analysis - Mesozoic Great Valley Fore-Arc Sedimentary-Rocks of California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 104(10), 1264-1279.

Montanari, A., Carey, S., Coccioni, R., and Deino, A. (1994) Early Miocene Tephra in the Apennine Pelagic Sequence - an Inferred Sardinian Provenance and Implications for Western Mediterranean Tectonics. Tectonics, 13(5), 1120-1134.

Nesbitt, H.W., and Young, G.M. (1996) Petrogenesis of sediments in the absence of chemical weathering: Effects of abrasion and sorting on bulk composition and mineralogy. Sedimentology, 43(2), 341-358.

Nicolaysen, K., Bowring, S., Frey, F., Weis, D., Ingle, S., Pringle, M.S., and Coffin, M.F. (2001) Provenance of Proterozoic garnet-biotite gneiss recovered from Elan Bank, Kerguelen Plateau, southern Indian Ocean. Geology, 29(3), 235-238.

Nishimura, Y., Coombs, D.S., Landis, C.A., and Itaya, T. (2000) Continuous metamorphic gradient documented by graphitization and K-Ar age, southeast Otago, New Zealand. American Mineralogist, 85(11-12), 1625-1636.

Nyakairu, G.W.A., and Koeberl, C. (2001) Mineralogical and chemical composition and distribution of rare earth elements in clay-rich sediments from central Uganda. Geochemical Journal, 35(1), 13-28.

Ozcelik, O., and Altunsoy, M. (1996) Clastic petrofacies, provenance and organic facies of the Bozbel Formation (Lutetian) in the eastern Sivas Basin (Turkey). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 13(5), 493-501.

Parkinson, D. (1991) Age and Isotopic Character of Early Proterozoic Basement Gneisses in the Southern Monashee Complex, Southeastern British-Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28(8), 1159-1168.

Pigois, J.P., Groves, D.I., Fletcher, I.R., Mcnaughton, N.J., and Snee, L.W. (2003) Age constraints on Tarkwaian palaeoplacer and lode-gold formation in the Tarkwa-Damang district, SW Ghana. Mineralium Deposita, 38(6), 695-714.

Ragland, P.C., Parker, W.C., and Conley, J.F. (1997) A multivariate method for determining the provenance and protolith of metasedimentary rocks: an example from the Fork Mountain Formation, southwestern Virginia Piedmont, USA. Geochemical Journal, 31(5), 275-288.

Ruffini, R., Polino, R., Callegari, E., Hunziker, J.C., and Pfeifer, H.R. (1997) Volcanic clast-rich turbidites of the Taveyanne sandstones from the Thones syncline (Savoie, France): records for a tertiary postcollisional volcanism. Schweizerische Mineralogische Und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 77(2), 161-174.

Sakai, H., Takigami, Y., Nakamuta, Y., and Nomura, H. (1999) Inverted metamorphism in the Pre-Siwalik foreland basin sediments beneath the crystalline nappe, western Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 17(5-6), 727-739.

Schermer, E.R., and Busby, C. (1994) Jurassic Magmatism in the Central Mojave Desert - Implications for Arc Paleogeography and Preservation of Continental Volcanic Sequences. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 106(6), 767-790.

Schott, R.C., and Johnson, C.M. (2001) Garnet-bearing trondhjemite and other conglomerate clasts from the Gualala basin, California: Sedimentary record of the missing western portion of the Salinian magmatic arc? Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113(7), 870-880.

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.

Shaghude, Y.W., and Wannas, K.O. (2000) Mineralogical and biogenic composition of the Zanzibar Channel sediments, Tanzania. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 51(4), 477-489.

Shimizu, H., Yoshimura, J.Y., Yamashita, M., Takahashi, K., and Adachi, M. (2000) Rb-Sr isotopic and REE geochemistry on garnet-biotite granodiorite clasts from the Permian Kozaki formation, Kumamoto, Southwest Japan: A slightly enriched initial Sr isotope ratio and M-type REE tetrad pattern. Geochemical Journal, 34(2), 101-120.

Skilbeck, C.G., and Cawood, P.A. (1994) Provenance History of a Carboniferous Gondwana Margin Fore-Arc Basin, New-England Fold Belt, Eastern Australia - Modal and Geochemical Constraints. Sedimentary Geology, 93(1-2), 107-133.

Slack, J.F., and Stevens, B.P.J. (1994) Clastic Metasediments of the Early Proterozoic Broken-Hill Group, New-South-Wales, Australia - Geochemistry, Provenance, and Metallogenic Significance. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 58(17), 3633-3652.

Smale, D. (1990) Distribution and Provenance of Heavy Minerals in the South Island - a Review. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 33(4), 557-571.

-. (1997) Heavy minerals in the Torlesse Terrane of the Wellington area, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 40(4), 499-506.

Smale, D., and Laird, M.G. (1995) Relation of Heavy Mineral Populations to Stratigraphy of Cretaceous Formations in Marlborough, New-Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 38(2), 211-222.

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.

Smith, M.E., Singer, B., and Carroll, A. (2003) Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronology of the Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115(5), 549-565.

Sollner, F., Loske, W., and Miller, H. (1994) Subdivision of the Ktb-Series (Germany) According to Variations in Provenance and Thermal History of Zircons in Paragneisses - Evidence from U-Pb Zircon Dating. Neues Jahrbuch Fur Mineralogie-Monatshefte(8), 337-357.

Steenken, A., Wemmer, K., De Luchi, M.G.L., Siegesmund, S., and Pawlig, S. (2004) Crustal provenance and cooling of the basement complexes of the Sierra de San Luis: An insight into the tectonic history of the proto-Andean margin of Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 7(4), 1171-1195.

Stewart, A.D. (1991) Geochemistry, Provenance and Paleoclimate of the Sleat and Torridon Groups in Skye. Scottish Journal of Geology, 27, 81-95.

Stussi, J.M., and Cuney, M. (1996) Nature of biotites from alkaline, calc-alkaline and peraluminous magmas - Comment. Journal of Petrology, 37(5), 1025-1029.

Sutton, S.J., and Maynard, J.B. (1993) Petrology, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry of Sandstones of the Lower Huronian Matinenda Formation - Resemblance to Underlying Basement Rocks. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30(6), 1209-1223.

Suzuki, K., Karakida, Y., and Kamada, Y. (2000) Provenance of granitic anchor stones recovered from the Takashima submerged site: an approach using the CHIME method for dating of zircons. Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B-Physical and Biological Sciences, 76(9), 139-144.

Valli, F., Guillot, S., and Hattori, K.H. (2004) Source and tectono-metamorphic evolution of mafic and pelitic metasedimentary rocks from the central Quetico metasedimentary belt, Archean Superior Province of Canada. Precambrian Research, 132(1-2), 155-177.

Van De Kamp, P.C., Helmold, K.P., and Leake, B.E. (1994) Holocene and Paleogene Arkoses of the Massif-Central, France - Mineralogy, Chemistry, Provenance, and Hydrothermal Alteration of the Type Arkose. Journal of Sedimentary Research Section a-Sedimentary Petrology and Processes, 64(1), 17-33.

Van De Kamp, P.C., and Leake, B.E. (1994) Petrology, Geochemistry, Provenance, and Alteration of Pennsylvanian-Permian Arkose, Colorado and Utah. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 106(12), 1571-1582.

Yavuz, F., Gultekin, A.H., Orgun, Y., Celik, N., Karakaya, M.C., and Sasmaz, A. (2002) Mineral chemistry of barium- and titanium-bearing biotites in calc-alkaline volcanic rocks from the Mezitler area (Balikesir-Dursunbey), western Turkey. Geochemical Journal, 36(6), 563-580.


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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