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Table of Contents - Special Paper 420

Sedimentary Provenance and Petrogenesis: Perspectives from Petrography and Geochemistry

edited by José Arribas, Salvatore Critelli, and Mark J. Johnsson

Preface		v
1.	Comparison of river and beach sand composition with source rocks, Dolomite Alps drainage basins, northeastern Italy M. Dane Picard and Earle F. McBride	1
2.	Cyclic variations in sediment provenance from late Pleistocene deposits of the eastern Po Plain, Italy Alessandro Amorosi, Maria Luisa Colalongo, Enrico Dinelli, Federico Lucchini, and Stefano Claudio Vaiani	13
3.	Geochemical and mineralogical proxies for grain size in mudstones and siltstones from the Pleistocene and Holocene of the Po River alluvial plain, Italy Enrico Dinelli, Fabio Tateo, and Vito Summa	25
4.	Petrography of Paleogene turbiditic sedimentation in northeastern Italy Cristina Stefani, Massimiliano Zattin, and Paolo Grandesso	37
5.	Alluvial sand composition as a tool to unravel late Quaternary sedimentation of the Modena Plain, northern Italy Stefano Lugli, Simona Marchetti Dori, and Daniela Fontana	57
6.	Geochemistry and petrography of Western Tethys Cretaceous sedimentary covers (Corsica and Northern Apennines): From source areas to configuration of margins Laura Bracciali, Michele Marroni, Luca Pandolfi, and Sergio Rocchi	73
7.	Petrographic analysis in regional geology interpretation: Case history of the Macigno (northern Apennines) Piero Bruni, Enrico Pandeli, and Massimo Nebbiai	95
8.	Interpreting siliciclastic-carbonate detrital modes in foreland basin systems: An example from Upper Miocene arenites of the central Apennines, Italy Salvatore Critelli, Emilia Le Pera, Fabrizio Galluzzo, Salvatore Milli, Massimiliano Moscatelli, Sonia Perrotta, and Massimo Santantonio	107
9.	Interpreting gypsarenites in the Rossano basin (Calabria, Italy): A contribution to the characterization of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean Mirko Barone, Rocco Dominici, and Stefano Lugli	135
10.	The onset of the sedimentary cycle in a mid-latitude upland environment: Weathering, pedogenesis, and geomorphic processes on plutonic rocks (Sila Massif, Calabria) Fabio Scarciglia, Emilia Le Pera, and Salvatore Critelli	149
11.	Interpreting carbonate particles in modern continental sands: An example from fluvial sands (Iberian Range, Spain) M.E. Arribas and J. Arribas	167
12.	Provenance discrimination of Lower Cretaceous synrift sandstones (eastern Iberian Chain, Spain): Constraints from detrital modes, heavy minerals, and geochemistry M.A. Caja, R. Marfil, M. Lago, R. Salas, and K. Ramseyer	181
13.	Significance of geochemical signatures on provenance in intracratonic rift basins: Examples from the Iberian plate M. Ochoa, M.E. Arribas, J. Arribas, and R. Mas	199
14.	Complex examination of the Upper Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks from southern Transdanubia, SW Hungary—Mineralogical, petrographic, and geochemical study Andrea Varga, György Szakmány, Tibor Árgyelán, Sándor Józsa, Béla Raucsik, and Zoltán Máthé	221
15.	First-cycle sandstone composition and color of associated fine-grained rocks as an aid to resolve Gondwana stratigraphy in peninsular India Prodip K. Dutta	241
16.	Sand and gravel provenance in the Waipaoa River system: Sedimentary recycling in an actively deforming forearc basin, North Island, New Zealand Dawn E. James, Alissa M. DeVaughn, and Kathleen M. Marsaglia	253
17.	The petrology and provenance of sand in the Bounty submarine fan, New Zealand Shawn A. Shapiro, Kathleen M. Marsaglia, and Lionel Carter	277
18.	Sediment sources of beach sand from the southern coast of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico—Fourier grain-shape analysis J.M. Murillo-Jiménez, William Full, E.H. Nava-Sánchez, V. Camacho-Valdéz, and A. León-Manilla	297
19.	Detrital apatite geochemistry and its application in provenance studies Andrew Morton and Greg Yaxley	319
20.	Predicting sand character with integrated genetic analysis William A. Heins and Suzanne Kairo	345
Index		381