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

Force, E.R. (1980) The Provenance of Rutile. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 50(2), 485-488.

Lihou, J.C., and Mange-Rajetzky, 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.

Morton, A.C. (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.

Morton, A.C., and Johnsson, M.J. (1993) Factors influencing the composition of detrital heavy minerals suites in Holocene sands of the Apure River drainage basin, Venezuela. In M.J. Johnsson, and A. Basu, Eds. Processes Controlling the Composition of Clastic Sediments, Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 284, p. 171-185.

Muir, R.O. (1963) Petrography and provenance of the Millstone Grit of central Scotland. Edinburgh Geological Society Transactions, 19, 439-485.

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.

Zack, T., Von Eynatten, H., and Kronz, A. (2004) Rutile geochemistry and its potential use in quantitative provenance studies. Sedimentary Geology, 171(1-4), 37-58.


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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