Earth-surface processes operate across erosionally dominated landscapes and deliver
sediment to depositional systems that can be preserved over a range of timescales. The …

A number of features of zircon (ZrSiO4), including high U-Th concentrations, high
abundance in a wide range of lithologies, refractory nature under metamorphic and some …

In an earlier book, The Geology of Fluvial Deposits (1996), I set out in detail modern
methods of facies and architectural analysis of fluvial deposits, and used numerous case …

Laser-ablation split-stream (LASS) analysis—high-speed, high spatial-resolution,
simultaneous isotopic and elemental analysis—enables petrochronology at a new level …

Detrital provenance studies using single-grain geochronology are very labor-intensive. This
paper presents a method for calculating k, the smallest number of grains in a sample that …

It has been more than a decade since the appearance of the First Edition of this book. Much
progress has been made, but some controversies remain. The original ideas of Sloss and of …

Granitic intrusions emplaced within Laurentia during the Grenville Orogeny (1.15–1.05 Ga)
are exceptionally Zr-rich, primarily a function of high modal zircon, relative to Paleozoic …

In this study we used LA‐ICP‐MS (laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass
spectrometry) to determine U‐Pb ages of 5 zircon samples of known age (∼ 1800 Ma to∼ …

We determined U-Pb ages for detrital zircons from 26 samples of Paleozoic sandstone from
the Grand Canyon. Cambrian strata yield mainly ca. 1.44 and 1.7–1.8 Ga ages that indicate …

Detrital zircon samples from Cambrian and Lower to Middle Ordovician strata were taken
across and along the strike of the Himalaya from Pakistan to Bhutan (∼ 2000 km). By …