Controls on Early Cretaceous desert sediment provenance in south-west Gondwana, Botucatu Formation (Brazil and Uruguay)

Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge support from Shell Brasil through the ‘BG05: UoA‐UFRGS‐SWB Sedimentary Basins’ project at UFRGS and the strategic importance given by ANP through the R&D levy regulation. The authors would like to thank Renan Guilherme de Souza and Adriano Reis for help in Tacuarembo/Uy Field Trip. This work is part of the current dual‐degree PhD from Gabriel Bertolini at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and University of Aberdeen. We thank the editors, and Dr Eduardo Garzanti, Dr Luca Caracciolo and Dr Sebastian Oriolo for their kind and constructive reviews. We thank to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) by the financial support (Grant: 203786/2017‐3).