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The study, titled "Ancient landscape evolution tracked through cosmogenic krypton in detrital zircon," was published in PNAS.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026

These isotopes helped determine whether clay minerals played a role in fossilization and whether those clays came from land, known as detrital clays, or formed directly within the seafloor, known as authigenic clays.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

"We found that many animals at the depth of discharge depend on naturally occurring small detrital particles -- the very food that mining plume particles replace."

From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2025

It also is a weathering and erosion agent, producing the grains that become detrital sedimentary rock.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The Chalk is often covered by the Clay-with-flints, a detrital deposit, formed of the remnants of Tertiary rocks and Chalk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various