Detrital zircon age constraints on the provenance of sandstones on Hatton Bank and Edoras Bank, NE Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Morton, Andrew C., Hitchen, Ken, Fanning, C. Mark, Yaxley, Greg M., Johnson, Howard, Ritchie, Derek
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of London 2009
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Greenland; Rockall Plateau; Rockall Bank; Hatton Bank; Edoras Bank
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5716/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5716/1/Detritalzirconpdf.pdf; http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/

U-Pb dating of detrital zircons shows that the provenance of Cretaceous-Palaeogene sandstones on Hatton and Edoras banks (SW Rockall Plateau) comprises magmatic rocks dated at c. 1800 Ma and c. 1750 Ma respectively. Their depositional setting, first-cycle mineralogy and unimodal nature detrital zirc...