none 10.2110/jsr.2013.41 Society for Sedimentary Geology Society for Sedimentary Geology 860 63510571 44378 2026060205230591100 10.2110 2026-06-02T09:23:17Z 2013-07-31T03:37:12Z 7 Journal of Sedimentary Research 1938-3681 1527-1404 08 2013 08 01 2013 08 01 2013 83 8 Michaela Aehnelt 1 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K. 2 IReS Ltd., The Technology Centre, Inward Way Rossmore Business Park, Ellesmere Port CH65 3EN, U.K. Richard H. Worden 1 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K. Andrew C. Canham 2 IReS Ltd., The Technology Centre, Inward Way Rossmore Business Park, Ellesmere Port CH65 3EN, U.K. Stephen J. Hill 2 IReS Ltd., The Technology Centre, Inward Way Rossmore Business Park, Ellesmere Port CH65 3EN, U.K. David M. Hodgson 1 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K. Stephen S. Flint 1 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, U.K. Abstract:  Whole-rock, inorganic, geochemical data have previously been used to aid characterization and stratigraphic correlation of fossil-poor clastic sedimentary deposits, although this approach has not yet been calibrated by testing chemostratigraphic correlations against physical stratigraphic correlations from outcrop. Chemical data from a well-exposed siliciclastic succession in a Tortonian (late Miocene) submarine slope channel system in the Tabernas Basin of southern Spain were generated using X-ray fluorescence supplemented by X-ray diffraction, SEM analysis, and light microscopy. Amongst the > 60 elements measured, nearly a quarter of them have proved to be useful or reliable for geochemically based correlation at the tested scales (∼ 10 m, ∼ 50 m, ∼ 100 m). These elements are SiO2, K2O, Al2O3, CaO, and TiO2, as well as Zr, Nb, Th, Rb, Cs, As, and the rare earth elements, La, Nd, and Ce. High-resolution, bed-to-bed geochemical correlation is feasible over short distances (∼ 10 m). Geochemical data from sections in beds that are traceable suggest that a given stratigraphic level seems to be geochemically homogeneous with respect to some key elements. Geochemical data also provide a useful aid for high-resolution sedimentary correlation, at distances of several tens of meters up to at least 100 m. Since each individual bed seems to be broadly homogeneous in composition, at a larger scale it is possible to discern a provenance signal in geochemical data. 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