Tectonic Setting and Provenance of Sedimentary Rocks
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 52
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sedimentary geochemistry; clay mineralogy; stable isotopes; U-Pb geochronology; oceanic anoxic enviroments (OAEs); paleogeography; paleoceanography; provenance and paleoclimatic studies
Interests: mineralogy; sedimentology; marine sediments; geochemistry; mineral chemistry; tectonics; surface features; and granulometry
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Dear Colleagues,
Clastic sedimentary rocks are produced through the physical disintegration of pre-excisting rocks during weathering and mechanical erosion. Clastic sedimentary rocks are significant because they are considerably useful for understanding Earth's evolution, paleogeography, and depositional environments. Clastic rocks mainly contain silicate minerals like quartz but also contain non-silicate minerals, including carbonates, sulfates, sulfides, oxides, and halides. Metalliferous deposits hosted by sedimentary rocks are typically associated with rift-related thick basinal volcano-sedimentary or sedimentary sequences.
Various methods are utilized to understand the sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleoclimate, source rock characteristics, tectonic setting, and depositional environment of a sedimentary basin. In particular, petrography, geochemistry, and geochronology play a vital role in inferring the source rock characteristics and tectonic settings of sedimentary basins.
The geochemical composition of sedimentary rocks is widely used as a proxy to portray the nature of source rocks, as well as the tectonic setting and evolution of continental crust. Furthermore, the composition of sedimentary rocks enables us to better understand the processes that produce economic concentrations of minerals, whether formed via hydrothermal, magmatic, or metamorphic processes, or even a combination of these processes. Geochemical studies significantly contribute to mineral exploration programs at the regional reconnaissance scale.
In addition, chemostratigraphic techniques that utilize geochemical variations for stratigraphic correlation allow for better discrimination of rock species. In previous studies the utilization of chemostratigraphic concepts to understand the provenance signatures of clastic sediments are not often used. This Special Issue will bring together new studies focusing on chemostratigraphy to correlate sedimentary sequences at the regional scale.
The purpose of this special issue on “Tectonic Setting and Provenance of Sedimentary Rocks” therefore is to better understand basin architecture and the depositional environment of sedimentary basins based on the geochemical and mineralogical composition of clastic sedimentary rocks.
This Special Issue addresses the following themes:
- Application of geochemistry in minerals and sedimentary ore deposits.
- Composition of sedimentary rocks, provenance, and tectonic setting.
- Geochemistry and geochronology of sedimentary rocks.
- Cheomostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy.
- Paleoweathering and paleoclimate.
- Usefulness of geochemistry in understanding depositional environments.
- Petrography and mineralogy of sedimentary rocks.
Dr. Jayagopal Madhavaraju
Dr. John S. Armstrong-Altrin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tectonic setting
- provenance
- chemostratigraphy
- geochemistry
- geochronology
- sedimentary rocks
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