Characteristic of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology in the southern Okinawa Trough and its implication for sediment provenance

ZHU Bowen; ZENG Zhigang

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2022 Vol. 37, No. 1

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ZHU Bowen, ZENG Zhigang. Characteristic of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology in the southern Okinawa Trough and its implication for sediment provenance[J]. Marine Geology Frontiers, 2022, 38(1): 14-23. doi: 10.16028/j.1009-2722.2020.190

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ZHU Bowen, ZENG Zhigang. Characteristic of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology in the southern Okinawa Trough and its implication for sediment provenance[J]. Marine Geology Frontiers, 2022, 38(1): 14-23. doi: 10.16028/j.1009-2722.2020.190

Characteristic of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology in the southern Okinawa Trough and its implication for sediment provenance

ZHU Bowen^1,2,,
ZENG Zhigang^1,2,3, ,

1.
Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China;
2.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3.
Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science andTechnology, Qingdao 266237, China

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Corresponding author: ZENG Zhigang, zgzeng@ms.qdio.ac.cn

Received Date: 01 December 2020

Accepted Date: 26 November 2021

Publish Date: 28 January 2022

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The southern Okinawa Trough is the area with the fastest deposition rate since the Holocene, and its sediments record the evolution of provenance, Kuroshio and the East Asian monsoon. In this paper, detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology is used to study the provenance of H4-S2 sediments in the southern Okinawa Trough. By means of Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), Cumulative Age Distribution (CAD) and correlation analysis, the visual analysis and similarity test for potential provenances of two layers of sediments are carried out for the trough, and thus the chronology and provenance of detrital zircon revealed. The provenance analysis suggests that the detrital zircon in the sediments from the southern Okinawa Trough are sourced from the East China Sea shelf, Yangtze River and Lanyang River during the last 200 years, which means that the East China Sea shelf and Yangtze River dominated the provenance of the Late Quaternary sediments in the southern Okinawa Trough.
- Okinawa Trough /
- detrital zircon /
- U-Pb geochronology /
- provenance tracing

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