Detrital Minerals Geochronology Applied to Tectonics and Paleogeography
This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on detrital mineral geochronology. Geochronology of detrital minerals is a rapidly developing analytical tool in Earth science research due to the widespread occurrence of zircons, apatites, rutiles, and other minerals in the sedimentary record. U-Pb ages can be used to constrain the age of sedimentation of the host sediment, reconstruct sediment transport pathways and provenance areas, and characterize different aspects of the geological evolution of source regions. For this Special Issue, we invite authors to submit papers on the geochronological dating of detrital minerals and their application for understanding tectonics and paleogeography. Papers covering different aspects of the methodology of data acquisition and interpretation are welcome, too.
Dr. Victoria B. Ershova
Dr. Artem V. Moiseev
Prof. Dr. Andrey K. Khudoley
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- zircons
- apatites
- rutiles
- U-Pb dating
- low temperature thermochronology
- tectonic
- paleogeography
- geodynamics
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Published Papers
Minerals - ISSN 2075-163X