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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

The results showed that detrital clay particles were already present in the sediment that covered the organisms.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

As all ecosystems require a method to recycle material from dead organisms, most grazing food webs have an associated detrital food web.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Considerations such as the foregoing must convince us that while the accumulation of the detrital sediments around the continents is largely the result of activities progressing on the steeper slopes of the land, that is,

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John