{"title":"The Belt Basin (Rocky Mountains): Composition of Sedimentary Complexes and Some Features of Its Sedimentary Filling","authors":"A. V. Maslov","doi":"10.1134/S0024490222040058","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article overviews concepts of the formation of sedimentary sequences of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, a classical Upper Precambrian section of the Rocky Mountains (North America). Analysis of data on the bulk chemical composition of mudstones of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup (González-Álvarez, 2005; González-Álvarez and Kerrich, 2010) suggests that the overwhelming part of the fine-grained aluminosiliciclastic filling in the Belt Basin was delivered from complexes with non-Archean geochemical characteristics. During almost the entire period of sedimentary filling in the Belt Basin, the fine-grained aluminosiliciclastic material was delivered by large river arteries similar to modern rivers of category 1, i.e., major rivers draining large (>100 000 km<sup>2</sup>) continental areas (Bayon et al., 2015), and category 2 (rivers draining the “mixed/sedimentary” rocks). This fact confirms the concept of the formation of sedimentary sequences of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup inferred from both traditional geological methods and analysis of data on the U–Pb isotopic ages of detrital zircons and monazites from sandstones of various lithostratigraphic units.</p>","PeriodicalId":18150,"journal":{"name":"Lithology and Mineral Resources","volume":"57 4","pages":"315 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Lithology and Mineral Resources","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0024490222040058","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article overviews concepts of the formation of sedimentary sequences of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, a classical Upper Precambrian section of the Rocky Mountains (North America). Analysis of data on the bulk chemical composition of mudstones of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup (González-Álvarez, 2005; González-Álvarez and Kerrich, 2010) suggests that the overwhelming part of the fine-grained aluminosiliciclastic filling in the Belt Basin was delivered from complexes with non-Archean geochemical characteristics. During almost the entire period of sedimentary filling in the Belt Basin, the fine-grained aluminosiliciclastic material was delivered by large river arteries similar to modern rivers of category 1, i.e., major rivers draining large (>100 000 km2) continental areas (Bayon et al., 2015), and category 2 (rivers draining the “mixed/sedimentary” rocks). This fact confirms the concept of the formation of sedimentary sequences of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup inferred from both traditional geological methods and analysis of data on the U–Pb isotopic ages of detrital zircons and monazites from sandstones of various lithostratigraphic units.
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Lithology and Mineral Resources is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on a wide range of problems related to the formation of sedimentary rocks and ores. Special attention is given to comparison of ancient sedimentary rock and ore formation with present-day processes. The major part of the journal is devoted to comparative analysis of sedimentary processes on the continents and in oceans, as well as the genetic aspects of the formation of sedimentary and hydrothermal–sedimentary mineral resources. The journal welcomes manuscripts from all countries in the English or Russian language.