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Jun 2010
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Jietao WANG, Chang'an LI, Yong YANG, Lei SHAO. Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of core sediments in Zhoulao Town, Jianghan plain, China. Journal of Earth Science, 2010, 21(3): 257-271. doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0090-4
Citation: Jietao WANG, Chang'an LI, Yong YANG, Lei SHAO. Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of core sediments in Zhoulao Town, Jianghan plain, China. Journal of Earth Science, 2010, 21(3): 257-271. doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0090-4
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Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of core sediments in Zhoulao Town, Jianghan plain, China

doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0090-4
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    Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

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    Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

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the National Natural Science Foundation of China 40771213

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 40672206

the National Basic Research Program of China 2004CB720204

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  • Corresponding author: Chang'an LI: chanli@cug.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 26 Sep 2009
  • Accepted Date: 20 Dec 2009
  • Publish Date: 01 Jun 2010
    Abstract
  • In our study, the U-Pb age spectrum of detrital zircons from terrigenous sediments is used to determine the sources. The Middle and Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River drain the western Yangtze craton and eastern Tibetan plateau, and take lots of sediments to the Jianghan (江汉) plain. Detrital zircons collected from Zhoulao (周老) core provide an ideal sample for the provenance studies. Here we report LA-ICP-MS U-Pb ages of 125 detrital zircons from one sand sample in the core sediments, which is recovered from a depth of 86.76–88.58 m and the paleomagnetic age is about 800 kaBP, in Zhoulao Town. The 125 zircons reveal nine major age peaks of > 3.0, 2.5–2.3, 2.0–1.7 Ga, 838–723, 453–415, 257, 212, 166 and < 17 Ma. Only two zircons have ages of 14.8 and 16.5 Ma, their appearance indicates that the headwater of the Yangtze River had reached the Tibetan plateau about 800 ka ago. Our results also show that the Hanjiang (汉江) River did not influence the sediments of the Zhoulao core obviously at that time.

     

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