Alan—if you are interested in subsurface data, we report detrital zircon ages from lower Paleozoic sandstones in the Florida basement (Suwannee terrane) in:

Mueller, P.A., Heatherington, A.L., Foster, D.A., Thomas, W.A. and Wooden, J.L., 2014. The Suwannee suture: Significance for Gondwana-Laurentia terrane transfer and formation of Pangaea. Gondwana Research, 26(1), pp.365-373.

Regards

Paul

On Jun 11, 2018, at 6:45 PM, Alan D. Chapman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear tectonics community,

I am putting the finishing touches on a compilation of U-Pb detrital zircon ages from Ordovician to Pennsylvanian (meta)clastic rocks of the central portion of North America (specifically the region shown in the attached image - southern Canada, the contiguous U.S., and northern Mexico).  Below this message is a list of references from which I've gathered relevant data and added it to the compilation.

I'd like this compilation to be as comprehensive as possible, though my hunt for Paleozoic detrital zircon ages may not have snagged all existing data.  If you are aware of, or have personally generated, additional data that I've missed in this effort, 1) I apologize and 2) please send references and/or data so I can include them!

Happy trails,

Alan

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Macalester College
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Alsalem, O.B., Fan, M., Zamora, J., Xie, X., and Griffin, W.R., 2018, Paleozoic sediment dispersal before and during the collision between Laurentia and Gondwana in the Fort Worth Basin, USA: Geosphere, v. 14, no. 1, p. 325–342, doi: 10 .1130/GES01480.1.

Attia, S. Paterson, S.R., Wenrong, C., Chapman, A.D., Saleeby, J., Dunne, G., Stevens, C., Memeti, V., in press, Paleogeographic affinity and tectonic assembly of pre-Mesozoic Sierra Nevada framework terranes, submitted to GSA Special Papers.

Becker, T.P., Thomas, W.A., Samson, S.D. and Gehrels, G.E., 2005, Detrital zircon evidence of Laurentian crustal dominance in the lower Pennsylvanian deposits of the Alleghenian clastic wedge in eastern North America. Sedimentary Geology, 182, 59–86.

Beranek, L.P., Link, P.K., and Fanning, C.M., 2016, Detrital zircon record of mid-Paleozoic convergent margin activity in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains: Implications for the Antler orogeny and early evolution of the North American Cordillera. Lithosphere, v.8, p 533-550.

Cawood, P.A., and Nemchin, A.A. 2000, Provenance record of a rift basin: U/Pb ages of detrital zircons from the Perth Basin, Western Australia. Sediment. Geol. 134:209-234.

Dodson, S. 2008. Petrographic and geochronologic provenance analysis of Upper Pennsylvanian fluvial sandstones of the Conemaugh and Monongahela Groups, Athens County, Ohio. Unpublished MS thesis. Ohio University. 86 pp.

Dorais, M.J.; Wintsch, R.P.; Nelson, W.R.; and Tubrett, M. 2009. Insights into the Acadian orogeny, New England Appalachians: a provenance study of the Carrabassett and Kittery formations, Maine. Atlantic Geol. 45:50-71.

Eriksson, K.A., Campbell, I.H., Palin, J.M., Allen, C.M. and Bock, B., 2004, Evidence for multiple recycling in Neoproterozoic through Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks of the central Appalachian basin. Journal of Geology, 112, 261–276.

Gehrels, G.E., and Miller, M.M., 2000, Detrital zircon geochronologic study of upper Paleozoic strata in the eastern Klamath terrane, northern California, in Soreghan, M.J., and Gehrels, G.E., eds., Paleozoic and Triassic paleogeography and tectonics of western Nevada and northern California: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 347, p. 99–107.

Gehrels, G.E., and Pecha, M., 2014, Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Paleozoic and Triassic passive margin strata of western North America: Geosphere, v. 10, p. 49–65, doi:10.1130/GES00889.1.

Gehrels, G.E., Stewart, J.H., and Ketner, K.B., 2002, Cordilleran margin quartzites in Baja California - implications for tectonic transport, Earth and Planetary Science Letters v. 199 p.201-210

Gehrels, G.E., Blakey, R., Karlstrom, K.E.,Timmons, J.M., Dickinson,W.R., and Pecha, M., 2011, Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Paleozoic strata in the Grand Canyon: Lithosphere, v. 3, p. 183–200, doi:10.1130 /L121.1.

Gleason, J.D., Finney, S.C., and Gehrels, G.E. 2002, Paleotectonic implications of a Mid- to Late-Ordovician provenance shift, as recorded in sedimentary strata of the Ouachita and Southern Appalachian Mountains. J. Geol. 110:291-304.

Gleason, J.G., Gehrels, G.E., Dickinson, W.R., Patchett, P.J., and Kring, D.A., 2007, Laurentian sources for detrital zircon grains in turbidite and deltaic sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Haymond Formation, Marathon Assemblage, West Texas, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, no. 11, p. 888–900, doi:10.2110/ jsr.2007.084.

Gray, M.B., and Zeitler, P.K. 1997, Comparison of clastic wedge provenance in the Appalachian foreland using U/Pb ages of detrital zircons. Tectonics. 16:151-160.

Harding, J.P., Gehrels, G.E., Harwood, D.S., and Girty, G.H. 2000, Detrital zircon geochronology of the Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra terrane, northeastern California. In Soreghan., M.J. and Gehrels, G.E., eds. Paleozoic and Triassic paleogeography and tectonics of western Nevada and northern California. Boulder, Colorado. Geological Society of America Special Paper 347:43-55.

Kissock, J.K., 2016, Detrital zircon evidence for the unroofing of the northern Appalachians in Early-Middle Pennsylvanian sandstones of North America.  Unpublished MS thesis.University of Iowa. 207 pp.

Konstantinou, A., Wirth, K.R., Vervoort, J.D., Malone, D.H., Davidson, C., and Craddock, J.P., 2014, Provenance of quartz arenites of the Early Paleozoic midcontinent region, USA: The Journal of Geology, v. 122, p. 201-216.

Lemieux, Y., Thompson, R.I., Erdmer, P., Simonetti, A., and Creaser, R.A. 2007, Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of Late Proterozoic and mid- Paleozoic successions outboard of the miogeocline, southeastern Canadian Cordillera. Can. J. Earth Sci. 44:1675-1693.

Linde, G.M., Trexler, J.H., Jr., Cashman, P.H., Gehrels, G.E., and Dickinson, W.R., 2016, Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of the Roberts Mountain allochthon: New insights into the early Paleozoic tectonics of western North America: Geosphere, doi:10.1130/GES01252.1.

Link, P.K., Mahon, R.C., Beranek, L.P., Campbell-Stone, E.A., and Lynds, R., 2014, Detrital zircon provenance of Pennsylvanian to Permian sandstones from the Wyoming craton and Wood River basin, Idaho, U.S.A.: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 49, p. 115–136, doi: 10.2113/gsrocky.49.2.115.

May, S.R., Gray, G.G., Summa, L.L., Stewart, N.R., Gehrels, G.E., and Pecha, M.E., 2013, Detrital zircon geochronology from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA: Implications for tectonostratigraphic evolution and paleogeography: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 125(9-10), p. 1403-1422.

McGuire, P.R., 2017, U-Pb detrital zircon signature of the Ouachita orogenic belt. Unpublished MS thesis. Texas Christian University. 78 pp.

McLennan, S.M., Bock, B., Compston, W., Hemming, S.R., and McDaniel, D.K. 2001, Detrital zircon geochronology of Taconian and Acadian foreland sedimentary rocks in New England. J. Sediment. Res. 71:305-317.

Memeti, V., Gehrels, G.E., Paterson, S.R., Thompson, J.M., Mueller, R.M., and Pignotta, G.S., 2010, Evaluating the Mojave-Snow Lake fault hypothesis and origins of central Sierran metasedimentary pendant strata using detrital zircon provenance analyses: Lithosphere, v. 2, p. 341–360, doi: 10.1130/L58.1.

Mohamed, T.I., 2015, Sequence Stratigraphy and Provenance of the Bakken Formation in Southeast Alberta and Southwest Saskatchewan, Unpublished MS thesis. University of Calgary, 106 pp.

Park, H., Barbeau, D.L., Rickenbaker, A., Bachman-Krug, D., Gehrels, G., 2009, Application of Foreland Basin Detrital-Zircon Geochronology to the Reconstruction of the Southern and Central Appalachian Orogen, Journal of Geology, v. 118, p. 23-44.

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Riley, B.C.D., Snyder, W.S., and Gehrels, G.E., 2000, Detrital zircon geochronology of the Golconda allochton, Nevada. In Soreghan., M.J. and Gehrels, G.E., eds. Paleozoic and Triassic paleogeography and tectonics of western Nevada and northern California. Boulder, Colorado. Geological Society of America Special Paper 347:65-75.

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Soreghan, G.S., Moses, A.M., Soreghan, M.J., Hamilton, A., Fanning, C.M., and Link, P.K. 2007. Palaeoclimatic inferences from upper Palaeozoic siltstone of the Earp Formation and equivalents, Arizona-New Mexico (USA). Sedimentology. 54:701- 719.

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Thomas, W.A., Gehrels, G.E., and Romero, M.C., 2016, Detrital zircons from crystalline rocks along the Southern Oklahoma fault system, Wichita and Arbuckle Mountains, USA: Geo- sphere, v. 12, p. 1224–1234, doi:10.1130/GES01316.1.

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