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Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volume 42, 2014

Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology Applied to Tectonics

Abstract

Detrital zircon geochronology is rapidly developing into an essential tool in Earth science research because of the widespread occurrence of zircon in sedimentary systems; the wide range of information that can be extracted from zircon crystals; the ability to determine ages with reasonable precision, accuracy, and efficiency; and the wide range of new ideas about how to use detrital zircon geochronologic information. The U-Pb system is particularly powerful because three chronometers are available (238U→206Pb, 235U→207Pb, and 232Th→208Pb), but challenges arise because of complexities from inheritance and Pb loss. Ages can be used to constrain the age of deposition of the host sediment, reconstruct provenance, characterize a sedimentary unit, and characterize many different aspects of source regions. Detrital zircon geochronology has an exciting future given the growth history recorded in individual crystals; the variety of detrital minerals that can provide complementary information; and the large number of geochemical, isotopic, and chronologic systems that can be applied to these minerals.

Keyword(s): detrital zircons, maximum depositional age, provenance, tectonics, U-Pb geochronology
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Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology Applied to Tectonics
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 42, 127 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-050212-124012
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