The Huqf Supergroup, Sultanate of Oman, contains an important record of Neoproterozoic history, including evidence for two glaciations, a massive reorganization of the global carbon cycle, and the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. New U-Pb geochronologic data provide precise constraints on the age of several key stratigraphic levels in the Neoproterozoic Huqf Supergroup and its subjacent crystalli...

U–Pb ages of detrital zircons in clastic sediments are potential indicators of sedimentary provenance and crustal evolution. To extract geologically significant information from such data, it is necessary that the zircons analysed in the laboratory reflect the sediment from which they were separated. Among other factors, this depends on the number of grains analysed. The probability that a detr...

Trophic interactions are important features of terrestrial ecosystems affecting grazing and detrital food webs and ecosystem processes (Lawrence & Wise, 2000; Schmitz et al., 2000; Wardle et al., 2005; Fukami et al., 2006; Dunham, 2008); however, pathways linking these subsystems have long been ignored. Detrital systems and their processes had been assumed to be primarily donor-controlled (via ...

-Illite polytype quantification allows the differentiation of diagenetic and detrital illite components. In Paleozoic shales from the Illinois Basin, we observe 3 polytypes: 1M d, 1M and 2M~. 1M d and 1M are of diagenetic origin and 2M1 is of detrital origin. In this paper, we compare experimental X-ray diffraction (XRD) traces with traces calculated using WILDFIRE 9 and quantify mixtures of al...

In the densely populated region of East Asia, it is important to know the mechanism, scale, and frequency of heavy precipitation brought about during the monsoons and typhoons. However, observational data, which cover only several decades, are insufficient to examine the long-term trend of extreme precipitation and its background mechanism. In humid areas, the transport flux of a suspended detr...

[1] The age-elevation pattern of thermochronologic data has been used for many years to estimate apparent erosion rates in orogenic settings. Recently, it has been suggested that thermochronologic data for detrital minerals from active river system sediments can be used as an effective proxy for bedrock age-elevation distributions, serving as an alternative method for erosion rate studies. This...