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

Basu, A., Young, S.W., Suttner, L.J., James, W.C., and Mack, G.H. (1975) Re-Evaluation of Use of Undulatory Extinction and Polycrystallinity in Detrital Quartz for Provenance Interpretation. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 45(4), 873-882.

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.

Gotze, J., Plotze, M., Graupner, T., Hallbauer, D.K., and Bray, C.J. (2004) Trace element incorporation into quartz: A combined study by ICP-MS, electron spin resonance, cathodoluminescence, capillary ion analysis, and gas chromatography. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(18), 3741-3759.

Gotze, J., Plotze, M., and Habermann, D. (2001a) Origin, spectral characteristics and practical applications of the cathodolumimescence (CL) of quartz - a review. Mineralogy and Petrology, 71(3-4), 225-250.

Gotze, J., Plotze, M., Tichomirowa, M., Fuchs, H., and Pilot, J. (2001b) Aluminium in quartz as an indicator of the temperature of formation of agate. Mineralogical Magazine, 65(3), 407-413.


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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