Provenance and hinterland exhumation from LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb and fission-track double dating of Cretaceous sediments in the Jianghan Basin, Yangtze block, central China

Crystallization and cooling ages obtained from fission-track and U–Pb double dating of single zircons using LA-ICP-MS from five samples of Cretaceous Jianghan Basin strata, Yangtze block, central China, refine sediment sources and source-area exhumation. The Huangling basement massif of the northwestern Yangtze Craton and the Qinling-Dabie Orogen along the northern margin of the Yangtze block provided the U–Pb zircon-age populations. Two rapid...