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Provenance - based on the presence of muscovite and its mineral chemistry

Aalto, K.R., Sharp, W.D., and Renne, P.R. (1998) Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of detrital micas from Oligocene-Pleistocene sandstones of the Olympic Peninsula, Klamath Mountains, and northern California Coast Ranges: provenance and paleodrainage patterns. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 35(7), 735-745.

Adams, C.J., and Kelley, S. (1998) Provenance of Permian-Triassic and Ordovician metagraywacke terranes in New Zealand: Evidence from Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of detrital micas. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110(4), 422-432.

Anand, R.R., and Paine, M. (2002) Regolith geology of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications for exploration. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49(1), 3-162.

Armstrong, R.L., Parrish, R.R., Vanderheyden, P., Scott, K., Runkle, D., and Brown, R.L. (1991) Early Proterozoic Basement Exposures in the Southern Canadian Cordillera - Core Gneiss of Frenchman Cap, Unit-I of the Grand-Forks Gneiss, and the Vaseaux Formation. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28(8), 1169-1201.

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.

Barth, A.P., Wooden, J.L., Grove, M., Jacobson, C.E., and Pedrick, J.N. (2003) U-Pb zircon geochronology of rocks in the Salinas Valley region of California: A reevaluation of the crustal structure and origin of the Salinian block. Geology, 31(6), 517-520.

Baruah, P.K. (2004) Provenance and depositional environment of eastern Himalayan Gondwana rocks of Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 63(4), 440-448.

Blais-Stevens, A., Clague, J.J., Mathewes, R.W., Hebda, R.J., and Bornhold, B.D. (2003) Record of large, Late Pleistocene outburst floods preserved in Saanich Inlet sediments, Vancouver Island, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews, 22(21-22), 2327-2334.

Burkhard, M., Kerrich, R., Maas, R., and Fyfe, W.S. (1992) Stable and Sr-Isotope Evidence for Fluid Advection During Thrusting of the Glarus Nappe (Swiss Alps). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(2-3), 293-311.

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.

Capuzzo, N., Handler, R., Neubauer, F., and Wetzel, A. (2003) Post-collisional rapid exhumation and erosion during continental sedimentation: the example of the late Variscan Salvan-Dorenaz basin (Western Alps). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 92(3), 364-379.

Clift, P.D., Shimizu, N., Layne, G.D., and Blusztajn, J. (2001) Tracing patterns of erosion and drainage in the Paleogene Himalaya through ion probe Pb isotope analysis of detrital K-feldspars in the Indus Molasse, India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 188(3-4), 475-491.

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., Giese, U., Glasmacher, U., and Pickel, W. (1999) First Ar-40/Ar-39 age constraints for the Caledonian evolution of the trans-European suture zone in NE Germany. Journal of the Geological Society, 156, 279-290.

Dallmeyer, R.D., Keppie, J.D., and Nance, R.D. (1997) Ar-40/Ar-39 ages of detrital muscovite within Lower Cambrian and Carboniferous clastic sequences in northern Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick: Implications for provenance regions. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34(2), 156-168.

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.

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.

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.

Eichhorn, R., Loth, G., and Kennedy, A. (2001) Unravelling the pre-Variscan evolution of the Habach terrane (Tauern Window, Austria) by U-PbSHRIMP zircon data. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142(2), 147-162.

Ekosse, G. (2001) Provenance of the Kgwakgwe kaolin deposit in Southeastern Botswana and its possible utilization. Applied Clay Science, 20(3), 137-152.

Eriksson, K.A., Campbell, I.H., Palin, J.M., Allen, C.M., and Bock, B. (2004) Evidence for multiple recycling in neoproterozoic through Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks of the central Appalachian basin. Journal of Geology, 112(3), 261-276.

Garver, J.I. (1992) Provenance of Albian-Cenomanian Rocks of the Methow and Tyaughton Basins, Southern British-Columbia - a Midcretaceous Link between North-America and the Insular Terrane. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 29(6), 1274-1295.

Glasmacher, U.A., Bauer, W., Giese, U., Reynolds, P., Kober, B., Puchkov, V., Stroink, L., Alekseyev, A., and Willner, A.P. (2001) The metamorphic complex of Beloretzk, SW Urals, Russia - a terrane with a polyphase Meso- to Neoproterozoic thermo-dynamic evolution. Precambrian Research, 110(1-4), 185-213.

Haines, P.W., Turner, S.P., Kelley, S.P., Wartho, J.A., and Sherlock, S.C. (2004) Ar-40-Ar-39 dating of detrital muscovite in provenance investigations: a case study from the Adelaide Rift Complex, South Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 227(3-4), 297-311.

Haynes, D.W., Cross, K.C., Bills, R.T., and Reed, M.H. (1995) Olympic Dam Ore Genesis - a Fluid-Mixing Model. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 90(2), 281-307.

Henry, D.J., and Dutrow, B.L. (1992) Tourmaline in a Low-Grade Clastic Metasedimentary Rock - an Example of the Petrogenetic Potential of Tourmaline. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(2-3), 203-218.

Huckriede, H., Wemmer, K., and Ahrendt, H. (2004) Palaeogeography and tectonic structure of allochthonous units in the German part of the Rheno-Hercynian Belt (Central European Variscides). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 93(3), 414-431.

Huisman, D.J., and Kiden, P. (1998) A geochemical record of Late Cenozoic sedimentation history in the southern Netherlands. Geologie En Mijnbouw-Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 76(4), 277-292.

Hutson, F., Mann, P., and Renne, P. (1998) Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of single muscovite grains in Jurassic siliciclastic rocks (San Cayetano Formation): Constraints on the paleoposition of western Cuba. Geology, 26(1), 83-86.

Kelley, S.P., and Bluck, B.J. (1992) Laser Ar-40-Ar-39 Ages for Individual Detrital Muscovites in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, Uk. Chemical Geology, 101(1-2), 143-156.

Leake, B.E. (1996) Geochemically unravelling the sedimentary components of Archaean metasediments from Western Australia. Journal of the Geological Society, 153, 637-651.

Liu, S.F., Zhang, G.W., Zhang, Z.Q., and Su, S.G. (2001) Isotope chronological trace of granite gravel in Hefei Basin. Chinese Science Bulletin, 46(20), 1716-1722.

Maynard, J.B., Sutton, S.J., Robb, L.J., Ferraz, M.F., and Meyer, F.M. (1995) A Paleosol Developed on Hydrothermally Altered Granite from the Hinterland of the Witwatersrand Basin - Characteristics of a Source of Basin Fill. Journal of Geology, 103(4), 357-377.

Moura, M.L., and Kroonenberg, S.B. (1990) Geochemistry of Quaternary Fluvial and Eolian Sediments in the Southeastern Netherlands. Geologie En Mijnbouw, 69(4), 359-373.

Nagler, T.F., Schafer, H.J., and Gebauer, D. (1992) A Sm-Nd Isochron on Pelites-1 Ga in Excess of Their Depositional Age and Its Possible Significance. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 56(2), 789-795.

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.

Nyakairu, G.W.A., Koeberl, C., and Kurzweil, H. (2001) The Buwambo kaolin deposit in central Uganda: Mineralogical and chemical composition. Geochemical Journal, 35(4), 245-256.

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.

Rao, V.V.S., and Dasgupta, H.C. (1997) Clay mineralogy of argillites of the Precambrian Iron Ore Group, Noamundi basin, Eastern India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 49(2), 179-192.

Reynolds, P.H., Barr, S.M., White, C.E., and Teniere, P.J. (2004) Ar-40/Ar-39 dating in the Lochaber-Mulgrave area, northern mainland Nova Scotia: implications for timing of regional metamorphism and sediment provenance in the Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous Horton Group. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41(8), 987-996.

Ross, G.M., and Villeneuve, M. (2003) Provenance of the Mesoproterozoic (1.45 Ga) Belt basin (western North America): Another piece in the pre-Rodinia paleogeographic puzzle. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115(10), 1191-1217.

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.

Saleemi, A.A., and Ahmed, Z. (2000) Mineral and chemical composition of Karak mudstone, Kohat Plateau, Pakistan: implications for smectite-illitization and provenance. Sedimentary Geology, 130(3-4), 229-247.

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.

Sharp, M., Creaser, R.A., and Skidmore, M. (2002) Strontium isotope composition of runoff from a glaciated carbonate terrain. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 66(4), 595-614.

Sherlock, S.C., Jones, K.A., and Kelley, S.P. (2002) Fingerprinting polyorogenic detritus using the Ar-40/Ar-39 ultraviolet laser microprobe. Geology, 30(6), 515-518.

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.

Sollner, F., and Trouw, R.A.J. (1997) The Andrelandia depositional cycle (Minas Gerais Brazil), a post-transamazonic sequence south of the Sao Francisco Craton: Evidence for U-Pb dating on zircons of a metasediment. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 10(1), 21-28.

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.

Stuart, F.M. (2002) The exhumation history of orogenic belts from Ar-40/Ar-39 ages of detrital micas. Mineralogical Magazine, 66(1), 121-135.

Stuart, F.M., Bluck, B.J., and Pringle, M.S. (2001) Detrital muscovite Ar-40/Ar-39 ages from Carboniferous sandstones of the British Isles: Provenance and implications for the uplift history of orogenic belts. Tectonics, 20(2), 255-267.

Takasu, A., and Dallmeyer, R.D. (1992) Ar-40/Ar-39 Mineral Ages within Metamorphic Clasts from the Kuma Group (Eocene), Central Shikoku, Japan - Implications for Tectonic Development of the Sambagawa Accretionary Prism. Lithos, 28(1), 69-84.

Tonui, E., and De Caritat, P. (2003) Composition, diagenesis, and weathering of the sediments and basement of the Callabonna Sub-basin, central Australia: Implications for landscape evolution. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 73(6), 1036-1050.

Tulloch, A.J., and Palmer, K. (1990) Tectonic Implications of Granite Cobbles from the Midcretaceous Pororari Group, Southwest Nelson, New-Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 33(2), 205-217.

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.

Udayaganesan, P., Angusamy, N., and Rajamanickam, G.V. (1998) Heavy mineral distribution and provenance of Vaippar basin sediments, southeast coast of India. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, 27(2), 179-184.

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.

Von Eynatten, H., and Gaupp, R. (1999) Provenance of Cretaceous synorogenic sandstones in the Eastern Alps: constraints from framework petrography, heavy mineral analysis and mineral chemistry. Sedimentary Geology, 124(1-4), 81-111.

Wu, X.B., Dai, T.G., and He, S.X. (2001) The geochemical characteristics of light metasedimentary rock for Gaojian Group and their geologic implication in the southwest Hunan. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 17(4), 653-662.


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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