Structural Geology and Tectonics Elizabeth Miller

Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Circum-Arctic

With the advent of U-Pb dating of detrital zircon suites from sandstones with the LA-ICP-MS method it has  become routine to collect large and statistically meaningful data sets on the provenance of clastic successions.  In remote regions such as the Arctic, where so much is still to be discovered, this technique has been used with great success to determine the first order provenance of sandstones and to match sedimentary successions now separated by rifting. Our work has been funded by a variety of sources including NSF Award 09-542, the American Chemical Society PRF Award 45432-AC8, Exxon-Mobil, Shell International and British Petroleum.

Microscopic image of sedimentary rock

Publications

Orlov, S. Yu, N. B. Kuznetsov, E. L. Miller, A. A. Soboleva, and O. V. Udoratina. 2011. “Age Constraints for the Pre- Uralide-Timanide Orogenic Event Inferred from the Study of Detrital Zircons.” DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES 440 (1). MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER: 1216–21. DOI: 10.1134/S1028334X11090078

Miller, E. L., N. Kuznetsov, A. Soboleva, O. Udoratina, M. J. Grove, et al. 2011. “Baltica in the Cordillera?” GEOLOGY 39 (8). GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC: 791–94. DOI: 10.1130/G31910.1

Gottlieb, Eric S., Kristian E. Meisling, Elizabeth L. Miller, and Charles G''Gil'' Mull. 2014. “Closing the Canada Basin: Detrital Zircon Geochronology Relationships between the North Slope of Arctic Alaska and the Franklinian Mobile Belt of Arctic Canada.” GEOSPHERE 10 (6). GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC: 1366–84. DOI: 10.1130/GES01027.1

Miller, E. L., J. Toro, G. Gehrels, M. Tuchkova, S. Katkov, et al. 2006. Detrital Zircon Ages from Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Myrgovaam Basin Sandstones (Rauchua Trough), Western Chukotka, NE Russia. Edited by D. B. Stone et al. Orign of Northeastern Russia. Paleomagnetism, Geology and Tectonics: Geophysical Institute Report . University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK.

O'Brien, Tim M., Elizabeth L. Miller, Jeffery P. Benowitz, Kristian E. Meisling, and Trevor A. Dumitru. 2016. “DREDGE SAMPLES FROM THE CHUKCHI BORDERLAND: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE AMERASIA BASIN OF THE ARCTIC.” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 316 (9). AMER JOURNAL SCIENCE: 873–924. DOI: 10.2475/09.2016.03

Brumley, Kelley, Elizabeth L. Miller, Alexandros Konstantinou, Marty Grove, Kristian E. Meisling, et al. 2015. “First Bedrock Samples Dredged from Submarine Outcrops in the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Ocean.” GEOSPHERE 11 (1). GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC: 76–92. DOI: 10.1130/GES01044.1

Kuznetsov, N. B., S. Yu Orlov, E. L. Miller, A. V. Shazillo, A. V. Dronov, et al. 2011. “First Results of U/Pb Dating of Detrital Zircons from Early Paleozoic and Devonian Sandstones of the Baltic-Ladoga Region (South Ladoga Area).” DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES 438 (2). MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER: 759–65. DOI: 10.1134/S1028334X11060316

Kuznetsov, N. B., A. A. Soboleva, E. L. Miller, O. V. Udoratina, G. Gehrels, et al. 2013. “First U-Pb Datings of Detrital Zircons from Middle and Upper Paleozoic Sandstones of the Polar Urals: Testing the Regional Tectonic Models.” DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES 451 (1). MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER: 692–97. DOI: 10.1134/S1028334X1307012X

Amato, Jeffrey M., Jaime Toro, Elizabeth L. Miller, George E. Gehrels, G. Lang Farmer, et al. 2009. “Late Proterozoic-Paleozoic Evolution of the Arctic Alaska-Chukotka Terrane Based on U-Pb Igneous and Detrital Zircon Ages: Implications for Neoproterozoic Paleogeographic Reconstructions.” GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN 121 (9-10). GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC: 1219–35. DOI: 10.1130/B26510.1

Miller, Elizabeth L., Jaime Toro, George Gehrels, Jeffrey M. Amato, Andrei Prokopiev, et al. 2006. “New Insights into Arctic Paleogeography and Tectonics from U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology.” TECTONICS 25 (3). AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION. DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001830

Prokopiev, A. V., J. Toro, E. L. Miller, G. E. Gehrels, and A. I. Khanchuk. 2007. “Provenance of Paleozoic to Mesozoic Siliciclastic Sequences of the Verkhoyansk Continental Margin Based on U-Pb Ages of Detrital Zircon Suites.” Proc. of the Leonid Parfenov Memorial Conference: Tectonics and Metallogeny of the Circum-North Pacific and Eastern Asia, 283–86.

Miller, E. L., G. E. Gehrels, V. Pease, and S. Sokolov. 2010. “Stratigraphy and U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Wrangel Island, Russia: Implications for Arctic Paleogeography.” AAPG BULLETIN 94 (5). AMER ASSOC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST: 665–92. DOI: 10.1306/10200909036

Prokopiev, Andrei V., Jaime Toro, Elizabeth L. Miller, and George E. Gehrels. 2008. “The Paleo-Lena River - 200 M.y. of Transcontinental Zircon Transport in Siberia.” GEOLOGY 36 (9). GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC: 699–702. DOI: 10.1130/G24924A.1

Soloviev, A. V., and E. L. Miller. 2014. “The U-Pb Age Dating of Detrital Zircons from Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Deposits of Stolbovoy Island (New Siberian Islands).” STRATIGRAPHY AND GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION 22 (5). MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER: 507–17. DOI: 10.1134/S0869593814050086

Miller, Elizabeth L., Alexey V. Soloviev, Andrei V. Prokopiev, Jaime Toro, Dan Harris, et al. 2013. “Triassic River Systems and the Paleo-Pacific Margin of Northwestern Pangea.” GONDWANA RESEARCH 23 (4). ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV: 1631–45. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.08.015