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Provenance - based on the conglomeratic clasts

Allen, P., Sutton, J., and Watson, J.V. (1974) Torridonian tourmaline-quartz pebbles and the Precambrian crust northwest of Britain. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 130, 85-91.

Crowder, K.L., and Decker, J. (1985) Provenance of Conglomerate Clasts from Upper Cretaceous Kuskokwim Group, Southwest Alaska. Aapg Bulletin-American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 69(4), 660-660.

Decelles, P.G. (1988) Lithologic Provenance Modeling Applied to the Late Cretaceous Synorogenic Echo Canyon Conglomerate, Utah - a Case of Multiple Source Areas. Geology, 16(11), 1039-1043.

Decelles, P.G., Pile, H.T., and Coogan, J.C. (1993) Kinematic History of the Meade Thrust Based on Provenance of the Bechler Conglomerate at Red Mountain, Idaho, Sevier Thrust Belt. Tectonics, 12(6), 1436-1450.

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.

Gjelsvik, T. (1991) Composition and Provenance of the Lilljeborgfjellet Conglomerate Haakon Vii Land, Spitsbergen. Polar Research, 9(2), 141-154.

Graham, I.J., and Korsch, R.J. (1990) Age and Provenance of Granitoid Clasts in Moeatoa Conglomerate, Kawhia Syncline, New-Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 20(1), 25-39.

Hellman, F.J., Gee, D.G., Gjelsvik, T., and Tebenkov, A.M. (1998) Provenance and tectonic implications of Palaeoproterozoic (c. 1740 Ma) quartz porphyry clasts in the basal Old Red Sandstone (Lilljeborgfjellet Conglomerate Formation) of northwestern Svalbard's Caledonides. Geological Magazine, 135(6), 755-768.

Hidaka, H., Shimizu, H., and Adachi, M. (2002) U-Pb geochronology and REE geochernistry of zircons from Palaeoproterozoic paragneiss clasts in the Mesozoic Kamiaso conglomerate, central Japan: evidence for an Archean provenance. Chemical Geology, 187(3-4), 279-293.

Jiang, S.Y., Yang, J.H., and Palmer, M.R. (1999) Chemical compositions of tourmaline from the Inch Conglomerate Formation, Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland and their implication in provenance analysis. Chemie Der Erde-Geochemistry, 59(2), 123-133.

Leitch, E.C., and Cawood, P.A. (1987) Provenance Determination of Volcaniclastic Rocks - the Nature and Tectonic Significance of a Cambrian Conglomerate from the New-England Fold Belt, Eastern Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 57(4), 630-638.

Mcdonnell, M., and Craw, D. (2003) Stratigraphy and provenance of Pliocene greywacke-bearing conglomerate, Cardrona Valley, Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 46(3), 425-436.

Parker, D.F., Krystinik, J.G., and Mckee, B.J. (1988) Provenance of the Gueydan Formation, South Texas - Implications for the Late Oligocene Early Miocene Tectonic Evolution of the Trans-Pecos Volcanic Field. Geology, 16(12), 1085-1088.

Seiders, V.M. (1983) Correlation and Provenance of Upper Mesozoic Chert-Rich Conglomerate of California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 94(7), 875-888.

Wandres, A.M., Bradshaw, J.D., Weaver, S., Maas, R., Ireland, T., and Eby, N. (2004) Provenance analysis using conglomerate clast lithologies: a case study from the Pahau terrane of New Zealand. Sedimentary Geology, 167(1-2), 57-89.


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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