Terrigenous Mineralogical Province

a region of accumulation of synchronous sediments with a complex of light and heavy minerals and rock fragments, which are associated with the erosion of one or more distributive provinces.

The concept of terrigenous mineralogical province, which was introduced and developed by the Soviet lithologist V. P. Baturin (1937), is based on the existence of a regular dependence between the composition of the clastic components in sediments and the composition of the parent rocks in regions of erosion; evaluation of this dependence makes it possible to use the petrographic composition of clastic rocks for the stratigraphic correlation of sections and for the reconstruction of paleographic conditions.