A Multi-proxy Provenance Study of Late Carboniferous to Middle Jurassic Sandstones in the Eastern Sverdrup Basin and Its Bearing on Arctic Palaeogeographic Reconstructions

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Michael A. Pointon, Helen Smyth, Jenny E. Omma, Andrew C. Morton, Simon Schneider, Peter Hülse, Stephen J. Rippington, Berta Lopez-Mir, Quentin G. Crowley, Ian Millar, Martin J. Whitehouse, Dirk Frei, Robert A. Scott, Michael J. Flowerdew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: detrital zircon; U-Pb geochronology; Lu-Hf isotopes; mineral chemistry; heavy mineral analysis; Amerasia Basin; Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Chukotka; sverdrup basin; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13010010; https://doaj.org/article/ab92a6765c4a4239b5d62795e51c4083

A multi-proxy provenance study of Late Carboniferous to Middle Jurassic sandstones from the eastern Sverdrup Basin was undertaken employing optical petrography and heavy mineral analysis, chemical analysis of apatite, garnet and rutile grains, as well as detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf iso...