Quartz overgrowth textures and fluid inclusion thermometry evidence for basin?scale sedimentary recycling: An example from the Mesozoic Barents Sea Basin

Sedimentary recycling has the potential to obscure source-to-sink relationships, provenance interpretations, burial history reconstructions and robust reservoir quality predictions in siliciclastic sedimentary basins. Here, we integrate petrographic cathodoluminescence microtextures with fluid inclusion thermometry quartz overgrowths identify constrain candidate for recycled grains Lower Mesozoic sandstone of western Barents Sea basin. Four diagenetic imprints were recognized as proof sediment recycling: (a) microtextural surface properties overgrowths, (b) presence at sutured grain contacts, (c) reversed sequences (d) inclusions within overgrowths. The confirm delivery sediments across Their widespread distribution basin suggest that derived from a drainage regional-scale dispersal during latest Triassic. Furthermore, must have contained rocks. Prior exposure, precursor was subjected temperatures exceeding 130°C, whereby syntaxial precipitated. This temperature indicates an uplift around 3–4 km, which represents significant tectonic event. Recycled can provide insights on their they retain direct records. geothermal signatures geographically exclude spatially restricted intrabasinal highs higher-temperature crystalline rocks candidates portion. Our data support contemporaneous Novaya Zemlya Fold Thrust Belt most likely region. integrated approach demonstrated herein be used partly eroded basins equivalent setting worldwide, particularly quartz-rich strata susceptible supply older uplifted