Detrital Minerals: Their Application in Palaeo-Reconstruction

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there have been remarkable developments in techniques employed in sedimentary provenance studies, including major and trace element mineral chemistry, isotopic analysis and thermochronology on an ever-increasing array of detrital minerals. This has been accompanied by new automated technologies to quantify sediment compositions that enable provenance studies to be applied to fine-grained sediments as well as sandstones, and increased understanding of the processes that control detrital sediment compositions (weathering, transport, hydrodynamics, diagenesis, mineral fertility). In this issue, we invite papers that utilise both traditional and novel approaches to sediment provenance studies for one of the most important geological purposes, the understanding of palaeogeography, including identification of the nature and location of sediment source regions, constraining sediment entry points and transport pathways, and linking climate and tectonics to basin development and infill. Contributions that offer multi-proxy approaches are especially welcome.

Abstract/title submission: ideally until May 31, 2022
Manuscripts due by: October 31, 2022

Dr. Andrew C. Morton
Dr. Shane Tyrrell
Dr. Gustavo Zvirtes
Guest Editors

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