期刊
GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
卷 56, 期 5, 页码 2500-2527出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/gj.3950
关键词
Borneo; geochemistry; provenance; Rajang Group; weathering intensity
资金
- Curtin University Strategic Research Incentives fund
- Sarawak Energy Research Project [SEB-1039]
The stratigraphic records of the Palaeocene-Eocene provide valuable information on environmental and climatic signals. The study of turbiditic sedimentary rocks in NW Borneo reveals insights into palaeoweathering, tectonic setting, and provenance, with a primary source area of felsic rocks from the Schwaner Mountains. The sediments suggest a transition from an active continental margin setting in the Palaeocene to a passive margin setting in the Eocene.
The stratigraphic records of Palaeocene-Eocene are studied with interest as they encompass significant high-resolution information on the environmental and climatic signals. Here, we present whole-rockgeochemistry, mineralogy, and petrography of the turbiditic sedimentary rocks of the Upper Kelalan Formation, NW Borneo, and constraints on palaeoweathering, tectonic setting, and provenance. These are fine-medium-grained, poor to moderately sorted, angular to sub-rounded litharenites with lesser occurrences of arkose, wacke, and Fe-sandstone. The dominant proportion of monocrystalline and polycrystalline quartz, followed by K-feldspar and plagioclase and minor amounts of lithic fragments, zircon, etc., with nil-appreciable quantities of clay occur in these rocks. Chemical weathering indices (CIA, CIW, and PIA) values and A-CN-K plot show that the source area has undergone a moderate to an intense degree of chemical weathering and also influenced by the recycling effect. The majority of the sediments are derived from the felsic source area (i.e., granites) with some minor input from the metasedimentary/metamorphic terrain. Based on the geochemical ratios and discriminant diagrams, it is determined that the Schwaner Mountains and its metamorphic group of rocks were the principal provenances with some input from West Borneo Group of rocks. Our data suggest the sediments were deposited initially in an active continental margin setting during the Palaeocene that may have shifted to a passive margin setting during the Eocene age.
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