Tracing regional unconformities in intracratonic basins with high-precision zircon CA-TIMS geochronology

IF 7.2 1区地球科学 Q1 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Gondwana Research Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI:10.1016/j.gr.2024.11.009

Claudio Andrade, Paulo M. Vasconcelos, Joan Esterle, Tracey Crossingham, Kasia Sobczak, Heinz-Gerd Holl, Suzanne Hurter, Corey Wall, James L. Crowley

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Abstract

New high-resolution ID-TIMS geochronology of zircon from tuff horizons reveals a regionally traceable temporal hiatus of ∼ 3–10 Ma in sedimentation along the contact between the Middle-Upper Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures (WCM) and the Upper Jurassic Springbok Sandstone (SS), Surat Basin, Australia. Undecompacted sedimentation rates of 15–65 m.Ma−1 in the WCM drop to apparent sedimentation rates of 0 to 7 m.Ma−1 near the WCM-SS transition, rising again to 15–51 m.Ma−1 during SS deposition. U-Pb geochronology identifies a hiatus – either a cessation in sedimentation or an erosional event defining a regional unconformity – not discernable from sedimentary features, highlighting the need for high-resolution geochronology in defining key bounding surfaces in sequence stratigraphy of intracratonic basins. Determining the exact position of lithological contacts and characterizing petrophysical properties of units below and above the WCM-SS transition are particularly important in quantifying connectivity between the gas-bearing units below with regional aquifers above the unconformity. As exploration for coal-seam and shale gas in intracratonic sedimentary basins expands globally, identification of major stratigraphic transitions through high-resolution geochronology will help assessing the economic potential and environmental vulnerabilities of such systems.

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Gondwana Research 地学-地球科学综合

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12.90

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6.60%

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298

审稿时长

65 days

期刊介绍： Gondwana Research (GR) is an International Journal aimed to promote high quality research publications on all topics related to solid Earth, particularly with reference to the origin and evolution of continents, continental assemblies and their resources. GR is an "all earth science" journal with no restrictions on geological time, terrane or theme and covers a wide spectrum of topics in geosciences such as geology, geomorphology, palaeontology, structure, petrology, geochemistry, stable isotopes, geochronology, economic geology, exploration geology, engineering geology, geophysics, and environmental geology among other themes, and provides an appropriate forum to integrate studies from different disciplines and different terrains. In addition to regular articles and thematic issues, the journal invites high profile state-of-the-art reviews on thrust area topics for its column, ''GR FOCUS''. Focus articles include short biographies and photographs of the authors. Short articles (within ten printed pages) for rapid publication reporting important discoveries or innovative models of global interest will be considered under the category ''GR LETTERS''.