Early Pennsylvanian Sediment Routing in the U.S. Eastern Interior
| Status | Start Date | End Date | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active | Mar 15, 2021 | Dec 31, 2022 | Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Martin, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam |
| Director: | Isaac Allred |
| Other Researchers: | Dr. Mike Blum |
| Issue: | The study will address the following questions: Were Early Pennsylvanian fluvial systems crossing Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky feeder systems for Ouachita deep-sea fans? What was the size and scale of these Early Pennsylvanian drainage basins? |
| Objective: | This study will apply source-to-sink methods to constrain the drainage basin boundaries of Early Pennsylvanian fluvial systems in the Illinois basin and neighboring basins. |
| Approach: | The provenance of Early Pennsylvanian fluvial systems will be identified by detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology. This method will be cross-checked by scaling relationship analysis of fluvial architectural data obtained from outcrops and the subsurface. |
| Products: | Findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals. |
| Benefits: | The results of the study will identify fluvial sources for large deep-sea fans analogous to the deep-sea fans in the Bay of Bengal. |
