New 40 Ar- 39 Ar and detrital zircon U-Pb ages for the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap and Kaiparowits formations on the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah: implications for regional correlation, provenance, and biostratigraphy

dc.contributor.authorJinnah, Zubair A.
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Eric M.
dc.contributor.authorDeino, Alan L.
dc.contributor.authorLarsen, Joseph S.
dc.contributor.authorLink, Paul K.
dc.contributor.authorFanning, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T21:56:19Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T10:28:32Z
dc.description.abstractIn order to better constrain the age and provenance of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap and Kaiparowits formations in southern Utah, U-Pb SHRIMP ages were obtained for detrital zircons from three sandstone samples, in addition to the first 40Ar-39Ar age for the Wahweap Formation, obtained from a devitrified volcanic ash horizon (bentonite). The ash horizon, located ∼40 m above the base of the Wahweap Formation, yields an age of 80.1 ± 0.3 Ma. The new radiometric data improve upon previous biostratigraphic age estimates for the Wahweap Formation and indicate that the formation was deposited between approximately 81 and 76 Ma. The youngest population of detrital zircons from the base of the Wahweap Formation clusters around 83-82 Ma, while the youngest population in the capping sandstone near the top of the formation is between 77-81 Ma, consistent with the 40Ar-39Ar age. Detrital zircons from the base of the overlying Kaiparowits Formation include a younger population clustering around 77-76 Ma, but are otherwise broadly similar to those in the lower Wahweap. Detrital zircon assemblages suggest the lower Wahweap and Kaiparowits sandstones were primarily deposited by longitudinal stream systems sourced in the Cordilleran magmatic arc in southern California or western Nevada, along with Mesozoic volcanics in southern Arizona. The capping sandstone contains detrital zircons that suggest it was proximately sourced from transverse stream systems that drained eastward out of uplifted Mesozoic quartzose sandstones in the Sevier thrust belt to the west. Revised correlations between the Wahweap Formation and coeval strata and faunas across the Western Interior Basin show that the Wahweap Formation is coeval with Judithian age localities including the type-Judithian Judith River Formation. This suggests that the Aquilan and Judithian North American Land Mammal "ages" are in need of recalibration based on recent acquisition of this and other new radiometric data, as well as new faunal data. Moreover, this study provides critical temporal constraint for important mammalian and dinosaurian faunas of the Wahweap Formation.
dc.identifier.issn0195-6671
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/39376
dc.publisherAcademic Press
dc.sourceCretaceous Research
dc.subjectKeywords: argon-argon dating; biostratigraphy; deposition; detrital deposit; fauna; fossil record; geochronology; paleontology; provenance; sandstone; SHRIMP dating; uranium-lead dating; vertebrate; zircon; Kaiparowits Plateau; North America; United States; Utah; D 40Ar-39Ar dating; Campanian; Detrital zircons; Vertebrate paleontology; Western Interior Basin
dc.titleNew 40 Ar- 39 Ar and detrital zircon U-Pb ages for the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap and Kaiparowits formations on the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah: implications for regional correlation, provenance, and biostratigraphy
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage299
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage287
local.contributor.affiliationJinnah, Zubair A., University of the Witwatersrand
local.contributor.affiliationRoberts, Eric M., University of the Witwatersrand
local.contributor.affiliationDeino, Alan L., Berkeley Geochronology Center
local.contributor.affiliationLarsen, Joseph S., Idaho Department of Water Resources
local.contributor.affiliationLink, Paul K., Idaho State University
local.contributor.affiliationFanning, Christopher, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu4029993@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidFanning, Christopher, u4029993
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor040310 - Sedimentology
local.identifier.absfor040303 - Geochronology
local.identifier.absfor040311 - Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy)
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4027924xPUB176
local.identifier.citationvolume30
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cretres.2008.07.012
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-62049083929
local.identifier.thomsonID000265318700001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4027924
local.type.statusPublished Version

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