FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Thermochronology and U‐Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Demerara Plateau (French Guiana‐Suriname ): implications for the provenance of the Early Cretaceous syn‐rift sedimentation BT AF Girault, Igor Basile, Christophe Bernet, Matthias Paquette, Jean‐Louis Heuret, Arnauld Loncke, Lies Poetisi, Ewald Balvay, Mélanie AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:2;5:3;6:4;7:5;8:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:; C1 Université Grenoble Alpes ,Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IRD, IFSTTAR, ISTerre Grenoble ,France Université de Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, OPGC, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, F‐63000 10 Clermont‐Ferrand ,France Université de Guyane ,Géosciences Montpellier Cayenne ,France Université de Perpignan, CEFREM (UMR 5110), Perpignan, France Anton de Kom University of Suriname ,Paramaribo, Suriname C2 UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES, FRANCE UNIV CLERMONT AUVERGNE, FRANCE UNIV GUYANE, FRANCE UNIV PERPIGNAN, FRANCE UNIV SURINAME, SURINAME IF 3.2 TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00819/93108/99588.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00819/93108/99589.docx LA English DT Article CR DRADEM GUYAPLAC IGUANES BO Pourquoi pas ? L'Atalante DE ;Demerara Plateau;provenance analysis;source-to-sink;thermochronology;transform margin AB he provenance of Early Cretaceous sandstones dredged on the northern margin of the Demerara Plateau, offshore French Guiana and Suriname, reveals the sediment routing system that prevailed through the Equatorial Atlantic rifting. Fission-track analysis and U-Pb dating of 310 and 111 detrital zircons, respectively, have been performed. Microfacies analysis and inherited cooling ages suggest that the sandstones were deposited in shallow marine environments during the Early Cretaceous, before the Late Albian drowning of the marginal plateau. Most of the U-Pb zircon crystallisation ages are comprised between 700 and 600 Ma and attributed to the Pan-African-Brasiliano orogeny. Statistical and chronological evidences suggest that the zircon fission-track cooling ages were inherited from source material. Triassic peak ages (>50% of the population) are attributed to the early phase of Central Atlantic rifting. One sample records a cooling phase at ca. 170 Ma, presumably following volcanic hotspot activity and the opening of the Central Atlantic Ocean. Two other samples record the rapid exhumation of the French Guiana transform margin during the Equatorial Atlantic rifting (127 ± 11 and 106 ± 8 Ma). We propose a source-to-sink model in which the Pan-African-Brasiliano basement of the margin was eroded as a result of flexural uplift along the French Guiana margin, and the detrital material funnelled in the Cacipore graben sustained the Early Cretaceous syn-rift sedimentation on the marginal plateau. PY 2023 PD AUG SO Basin Research SN 0950-091X PU Wiley VL 35 IS 4 UT 000936723700001 BP 1386 EP 1406 DI 10.1111/bre.12758 ID 93108 ER EF