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缝合线研究的新进展——以湖北大冶铁山地区为例 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2
为深入研究碳酸盐岩中的压溶作用,加深对压溶作用的认识和理解,以常见的缝合线构造为例,结合前人的研究成果和现代科技手段对湖北大冶铁山地区的缝合线构造进行了全面深入的研究,得到以下研究成果:丰富了缝合线类型;结合计算机技术获得了缝合线的三维形态;总结了缝合线形成中的一些主控因素;论述缝合线在应力分析、应变测量等传统领域及在能源资源等新领域的应用;对缝合线研究中存在的问题及分歧进行了评述并指出今后几年的研究重点。认为缝合线构造其实是一种不规则的压溶曲面;缝合线的形成是各种主控因素相互间复杂作用的结果;有关各主控因素的作用地位和特点方面的研究结果又可以为缝合线构造的实际应用提供理论依据。 相似文献
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Saeid Sadeghnejad Mohsen Masihi Mahmoudreza Pishvaie Peter R. King 《Mathematical Geosciences》2013,45(3):321-340
Complicated sedimentary processes control the spatial distribution of geological heterogeneities. This serves to make the nature of the fluid flow in the hydrocarbon reservoirs immensely complex. Proper modeling of these heterogeneities and evaluation of their connectivity are crucial and affects all aspects of fluid flow. Since the natural variability of heterogeneity occurs in a myriad of length scales, accurate modeling of the rock type connectivity requires a very fine scheme, which is computationally very expensive. Hence, this makes other alternative methods such as the percolation approach attractive and necessary. The percolation approach considers the hypothesis that a reservoir can be split into either permeable (sand/fracture) or impermeable rocks (shale/matrix). In this approach, the connectivity of the permeable fraction governs the flow. This method links the global properties of the system to the density of the permeable objects distributed randomly in the system. Moreover, this approach reduces many results to some simple master curves from which all-possible outcomes can be predicted by simple algebraic transformations. The current study contributes to extending the applicability of the methodology to anisotropic systems as well as using the complicated and more realistic sandbody shapes (for example, ellipsoids). This enables us to attain a better assessment of the connectivity and its associated uncertainty of the complicated rock types. Furthermore, to validate the approach, the Burgan reservoir dataset of the Norouz offshore oil field in the south of Iran was used. The findings are in conformity with the percolation approach predictions. 相似文献
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鲁西古生代碳酸盐岩中的垂直缝合线及其在华北板块构造演化中的意义 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
笔者在山东省淄博市博山区中奥陶统马家沟群白云岩和上石炭统本溪组石灰岩中识别出垂直缝合线。垂直缝合线都借助于平面X剪节理发育,缝合面上的“牙齿”与缝合面本身多呈斜交状态,其延伸方向代表着变形期最大主压应力轴（σ1）方向。根据垂直缝合面“牙齿”的突出方向判别：以山东博山地区为代表的华北东部地区在古生代中期和末期先后两次受到NNE—SSW方向的水平挤压作用。其中第一次挤压事件与遍布华北东部的中奥陶统—上石炭统（C2—O2）平行不整合抬升相关,而第二次则与华北东部古生代末期的褶皱隆起相联系。本文的研究为垂直缝合线在盆地构造演化研究中的应用提供了良好的研究实例。 相似文献
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The impact of CO2 sequestration on the host formation is an issue occurring over geologic time. Laboratory tests can provide important results to investigate this matter but have limitations due to a relatively short timeline. Based on literature review and core sample observation, naturally occurred geological phenomena, stylolites are studied in this paper for understanding CO2 sequestration in deep carbonate formations. Stylolites are distinctive and pervasive structures in carbonates that are related to water-assisted pressure solution. Pressure solution involving stylolitization is thought to be the main mechanism of compaction and cementation for many carbonates. In parallel, CO2 sequestration in carbonate formation involves extensive chemical reactions among water, CO2 and rock matrix, favoring chemical compaction as a consequence. An analogue between stylolites and CO2 sequestration induced formation heterogeneity exists in the sense of chemical compaction, as both pressure solution in stylolites and CO2 enriched solution in CO2 sequestration in carbonate formations may all introduce abnormal porous regions. The shear and/or tension fractures associated with stylolites zones may develop vertically or sub-vertically; all these give us alert for long-term safety of CO2 sequestration. Thus a study of stylolites will help to understand the CO2 sequestration in deep carbonate formation in the long run. 相似文献
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Currently, sedimentologists focus on the challenging issue of microbial carbonates, which are regarded as "one of the sedimentary rocks most difficult to study", having complicated sedimentary fabric. Their characteristic features closely related to microbial activity, distributed over a long period of geological time, and formed in diversified sedimentary environments. The main research concentrations are the calcified microbial mats and biofilms in geological records as the products of lithification and diagenesis. Starting from the origin, this paper systematically reviewed and explained the processes dwelling within two types of microbial communities, the thinner biofilm and the thicker microbial mat, which enabled them to convert into microbial carbonates through biomineralization and lithification. This study proposed that the existence of multiple microbial mats was another important cause for the diversification and complexity of microbial carbonates in addition to its complex depositional process. Moreover, the sedimentary characteristics and classification of different types of microbial carbonates were reviewed, exemplifying the Cambrian microbial carbonates in the North China Platform. These microbial carbonates are suggested to be placed under "bindstone" after Embry and Kloven, which can be further divided into 5 types, stromatolites, thrombolites, oncolites, laminites and leiolites. Dendrolite is not categorized as a separate class, instead attributed to thrombolites. The microbial carbonates may possess good source rock potential because of the enriched organic content, and may also serve as hydrocarbon reservoirs because of certain microbial textures and fabrics leading to significant porosity and permeability. Because of their biomineralization processes related to microbial activity, the microbial carbonates are not only an important window to understand the evolution of the earth's surface environment, but also capable of forming large-scale reservoirs, and their scientific and economic values are self-evident. 相似文献
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微生物碳酸盐岩油气储层研究现状与展望 总被引：10，自引：5，他引：5
微生物碳酸盐岩是一种重要的油气储集岩。在中国古老深埋碳酸盐岩地层中它们是主要的岩石类型。微生物碳酸盐岩通常可划分为叠层石、凝块石、树枝石、均一石和核形石等五种类型。储层孔隙系统与微生物岩的沉积结构和构造密切相关,窗格孔（洞）和格架孔（洞）是主要储集空间类型。全球中新元古界至中生界都发现了以微生物碳酸盐岩为储层的油气田,资源潜力巨大。 微生物岩储层的岩石类型、沉积构造、相序结构、沉积模式和储层有利相带尚有许多不明晰之处,是今后进一步深化研究的重点方向。 相似文献
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Remarkable bedding features occur in Middle Cambrian platy limestone of the Western Hills close to Beijing in NE-China, which are intercalated in a sequence of shallow water carbonates (mudstones, storm deposits, oolitic grainstones). The platy limestone beds (up to 5 cm thickness) have undergone complex diagenetic compaction and pressure solution. Varying facies types are characterized by wavy, stylolitic boundaries with different thickness of clay accumulation and common lateral pinch out. Cross-cutting relationships of stylolites commonly destroy primary bed-surfaces. This indicates an intimate interfingering resulting in an indenting fabric of primary separated facies types. Nevertheless, primary sedimentary boundaries can be recognized. There occur varying types of compaction features documented by different stylolite types with varying amplitudes and thickness of clay-enrichments (parallel clay seams, stylolamination, stylo-nodular and stylo-brecciated structures with multi-grained seams). Bedded limestone of the type documented, generally belong to the limestone family of Plattenkalk, Lithographic Limestone or platy limestone, which can form in different environments. Consequently, using these names without detailed data on some specific parameters (e.g. thickness, surface morphology, composition of allochems, particle and crystal size) results in more confusion and hinders the comparison of Plattenkalk, Lithographic Limestone and platy limestone from different locations throughout the earth history. Therefore, a classification is proposed here which is based on macroscopic, microscopic, and sub-microscopic parameters. Plattenkalk and platy limestone are considered to form the two main groups. Plattenkalk beds are laterally consistent and have parallel, horizontal surfaces. Platy limestone can pinch out laterally and reveals irregular and inclined bed surfaces. Single beds in both can have different thickness, internal structure (e.g. micritic, microsparitic) and fabric (e.g. homogeneous, nodular), particle content and other variations (e.g. chemical, mineralogical). These parameters should be added to the basic name and used in a system similar to Folk’s limestone classification. Lithographic Limestone is defined as a subgroup of Plattenkalk with well-defined parameters. A consequent use of this classification will also help to understand fossil preservation and/or non-preservation in different types of Plattenkalk, Lithographic Limestone, and platy limestone. 相似文献
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JOHN SIMPSON 《Sedimentology》1985,32(4):495-505
It is often assumed that layering in many shelf and platform limestones at weathered outcrop is always bedding: the layers always beds, and the surfaces always bedding planes. Recognition of bedding is fundamental to facies and basin analysis. Examination of part of the Lower Carboniferous High Tor Limestone of the Gower, South Wales, shows that a totally diagenetic layering (pseudo-bedding) resembling, and parallel to primary depositional layering (true bedding), has been produced by the generation of parallel, more or less evenly-spaced stylolite surfaces during burial diagenesis. These stylolite surfaces are picked out by weathering at outcrop and resemble bedding planes. Evidence that the stylolite surfaces do not mark original bedding planes includes: a cross-cutting relationship of a stylolite surface to a primary bedding surface; lack of lithological change across, or sedimentary structures associated with, a stylolite surface; original bedding that is not coincident with stylolite surfaces and has not suffered pressure-dissolution; and lack of sedimentological evidence that the layers defined by the stylolite surfaces are true primary depositional beds. The generation of parallel and more or less evenly-spaced stylolite surfaces could be explained by a mathematical-kinetic model based on the relationship between pressure-dissolution, diffusion, and reprecipitation. Recognition of true bedding depends upon presence of lithological changes and/or sedimentary structures. It is suggested that pseudo-bedding could be confused with true bedding in some open platform/shelf lagoon facies where lithological changes or sedimentary structures are scarce or absent. 相似文献
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Interest in palustrine carbonates and calcretes has increased over the last 20 years since they contain significant environmental information. Much of the work performed in this area has focused on either of two types of terrestrial carbonate—palustrine carbonates or calcretes (pedogenic and groundwater)—yet their simultaneous study shows there may be a gradual transition from one form to the other, revealing the interplay between pedogenic, sedimentary, and diagenetic processes. Three main factors control the formation of these carbonates: the position of the water table, the host rock, and the period of sub-aerial exposure. In pedogenic calcretes, precipitation of carbonate takes places mostly in the vadose zone above the water table, and within a previous host rock or sediment. In groundwater calcretes, the precipitation of carbonate also occurs within a previous host rock and around the groundwater table. In palustrine carbonates, however, the precipitation of lime mud occurs in a lacustrine water body. Palustrine carbonates necessarily form on previous lacustrine mud, whereas both types of calcretes may form on any type of sediment or soil. The sub-aerial exposure time needed to form palustrine carbonates may by relatively short (even a season), whereas pedogenic calcretes need more time (several years to millions of years). Groundwater calcretes do not form on the topographic surfaces, so there is no need of sub-aerial exposure. However, stable surfaces favour the development of thick groundwater calcretes. Small fluctuations in the water table cause gradual transitions of these three types of terrestrial carbonates and the subsequent mixture of their characteristic features, causing difficulties in the interpretation of these carbonates.
The formation of these carbonates is controlled by palaeoenvironmental factors. Both commonly form in semi-arid climates. Arid climates are also suitable for calcretes, but sub-humid conditions are more suitable for palustrine carbonates. More indications of climatic conditions may be obtained through the analysis of the δ18O content of both calcretes and palustrine carbonates, and from the depth of the horizon containing carbonate nodules in pedogenic calcretes. Vegetation is also important in the formation of these types of carbonates. Data on the prevailing vegetation can be obtained from the analysis of the micro and macrofabric as well as from the δ13C signal of the primary carbonates, which, in pedogenic carbonates, has also been used to estimate atmospheric pCO2 during the Phanerozoic. These terrestrial carbonates are widely distributed on floodplains and distal areas of alluvial basins. Their presence and characteristics can be used as indicators of aggradation, subsidence or accommodation rates, and therefore as indicators of different tectonic regimes.
Even though the study of these carbonates has notably increased in recent years, much less is known about them than about marine carbonates. Presently, there is much emphasis on obtaining a general model for sequence stratigraphy in terrestrial basins, with a need to include the carbonates analysed in this paper. 相似文献
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The Late Jurassic-early Senonian Cehennemdere Formation extending in an E-W direction in a wide area at the south of the Bolkar Mountains (Central Taurides, Turkey) is composed of platform carbonates. The formation was deposited in an environment that was being transformed from a shallow carbonate platform to an open shelf and a continental slope, and was buried until late Paleocene uplift. The formation, with a thickness of about 360 m, was chiefly developed as textures consisting of mudstone and wackestone and has been commonly dolomitized. Based on petrographic and geochemical properties, four types of replacement dolomites and two types of dolomite cements were distinguished. Replacement dolomite (RD), which is cut by low-amplitude stylolites developed as (1) fine crystalline planar-s dolomite (RD1); (2) medium crystalline planar-s dolomite (RD2); (3) medium-coarse crystalline planar-e dolomite (RD3) and; (4) coarse crystalline planar-s (e) dolomite (RD4). Two types of dolomite cements (CD) observed in low abundance and overlie low-amplitude stylolites: (1) coarse crystalline dolomite cement (CD1) filling dissolution voids and fractures in RD1 dolomites, and; (2) rim dolomite cement (CD2) that commonly develops on the space-facing surfaces of RD4 dolomite. Replacement dolomites are non-stoichiometric (Ca54–59Mg41–46), have similar geochemical properties, and are generally dull red/non luminescent in appearance. Replacement dolomite is represented by δ18O values from −4.5 to −0.5‰ VPDB, δ13C values of −0.7 to 2.7‰ VPDB, and 87Sr/86Sr ratios ranging from 0.707178 to 0.707692. Petrographic and geochemical data indicate that replacement dolomite (particularly RD2, RD3, and RD4 dolomite) was formed at shallow-intermediate burial depths during the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, from seawater and/or from slightly modified seawater. The replacement dolomite (RD) was then recrystallized at increased burial depths and temperatures. Dolomite cements are similar to replacement dolomites in that they are non-stoichiometric (Ca55Mg45) and have similar trace element compositions. CD1 dolomite, which cuts low-amplitude stylolites, was formed during intermediate to deep burial following stylolite development. CD2 dolomite was precipitated in intercrystal pores in association with RD4 dolomite. Remaining pore space was filled with bitumen. 相似文献
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This paper addresses the diagenesis of carbonate conglomerates in that it assesses the potential of conglomerates in refining the paragenetic history in complex structural areas, such as the Albanian foreland fold‐and‐thrust belt. Of major interest are stylolites (burial and tectonic) which are restricted to conglomerate fragments or which crosscut the conglomerate matrix. Based on the inferred age of stylolite development in relation to burial, uplift and tectonic history, and the Lower to Middle Miocene age of the conglomerates, the succession of diagenetic events was subdivided into several stages. The Poçem polymict transgressive carbonate conglomerate (Kremenara anticline, central Albania) was deposited in a shallow marine environment. These conglomerates are covered by intertidal rhodolithic packstones–grainstones. The stable‐isotope signature of these packstones–grainstones (δ18OV‐PDB = −1·0 to +0·7‰; δ13C = +1·0 to +1·4‰) plots is within the range of marine Early and Middle Miocene values. Shortly after deposition of the conglomerates, micritization, geopetal infill and acicular calcite cementation took place. A first calcite vein generation is interpreted as having formed from a Messinian brine during shallow burial. Burial stylolites developed during further burial in the Pliocene. These stylolites serve as an important diagenetic time marker. The post‐burial stylolite meteoric calcite vein cement probably precipitated during the following telogenetic stage. Karstification and calcite concretion precipitiation pre‐date overturning of the western limb of the anticline. Reopening of subvertical fractures and tectonic stylolites in the western limb of the Kremenara anticline, followed by oil migration, represents one of the latest diagenetic events. These fractures and stylolites provide major pathways for hydrocarbon production. 相似文献
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沉积型碳酸锰矿床多被认为沉积于水体较深、局限且较还原的沉积环境,特别是黑色页岩型碳酸锰矿床。在扬子北缘城口地区,埃迪卡拉系陡山沱组顶部黑色页岩中也发育碳酸锰沉积,黑色页岩及锰矿石Ce元素异常被认为是指示沉积环境的关键证据,但缺乏系统的沉积学证据,其沉积环境还存在争议。本次研究通过野外剖面、钻井岩心观察和室内薄片观察,详细描述了城口地区陡山沱组碳酸锰岩石的沉积结构、构造特征,对其展开了详细的沉积学研究,确定了其沉积环境并建立了沉积模式。研究表明,城口锰矿是典型的微生物岩沉积,菱锰矿以层状构造为主,内部发育叠层石、核形石、树形石以及凝块石。其中,核形石菱锰矿常黏结生长,菱锰矿微观特征记录了凝块状、球粒状、丝状、管状、纤维状以及放射状等微生物岩微结构。关键钻孔岩心沉积记录显示,研究区陡山沱组菱锰矿与胶磷矿交互沉积,菱锰矿中发育各种微生物岩旋回沉积,少见正粒序层理,内部偶有记录代表水动力变强的内碎屑层,而胶磷矿以强水动力内碎屑沉积为特征,常发育于菱锰矿上部,显示含锰岩系—含磷岩系旋回沉积特征,揭示陡山沱组末期城口地区沉积水体逐渐变浅的特征。结合区域陡山沱组地层沉积特征,认为扬子北缘城口地区陡山沱组1段为缺失盖帽的无障壁海岸沉积,陡山沱组2段是具有混积特征的碳酸盐岩缓坡沉积,微生物岩型菱锰矿主要发育于浅缓坡下部障积丘礁沉积环境。值得注意的是,研究区陡山沱组末期障积丘礁的发育是加速该区域沉积体系由缓坡向台地演化的重要盆地演化动力学因素。 相似文献
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利用大量地质及地球化学资料,开展了柴达木盆地西部地区渐新世下干柴沟组上段盐湖沉积特征研究,重点识别岩石类型,恢复古沉积环境,建立沉积模式,探讨控制因素。研究认为：盐湖环境主要发育两大类、五小类沉积相组合,盐湖边缘沉积相包括滨岸斜坡带相组合、缓坡带相组合、陡坡带相组合,盆内沉积相包括水下隆起带相组合和盐湖深水区相组合;盐湖可划分早、中、晚3个沉积演化阶段,分别对应半咸水湖泊、咸水湖泊和盐湖;形成碳酸盐岩与钙质砂岩、富含石膏的碳酸盐岩与泥岩、厚层石盐与薄层碳酸盐岩等主要岩石组合;盐湖沉积主控因素为气候、古地貌与构造运动。 相似文献
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利用四川盆地磨溪地区12口井岩心、8口井成像测井资料、14口井的测井评价等资料,系统分析磨溪地区龙王庙组储层特征,划分了储层类型,探讨了储层形成主控因素,预测了优质储层展布。结果表明：1）川中磨溪地区龙王庙组储层主要岩石类型为中粗晶砂屑白云岩,储层中小洞发育,见到大量的构造缝和水平缝,整体表现为中低孔、中-高渗特征;2）龙王庙组储层类型可划分为溶蚀孔洞型、溶蚀孔隙型和基质孔隙型3种类型,其中高角度构造缝、水平缝、网状成岩缝和缝合线4种裂缝与3种储集类型形成整体连通的缝洞体系;3）优质储层主要在中细晶砂屑白云岩颗粒滩相中发育,颗粒滩后期经历3期岩溶作用,特别是表生期“顺层”溶蚀使溶蚀孔、洞型储层横向叠置连片,大面积分布,延伸5～20 km,井间连通性好,形成了孔洞发育的优质储层。 相似文献
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The effectiveness of secondary recovery methods in reservoir development studies depends on the knowledge about how fluid-carrying regions (i.e. good-quality rock types) are connected between injection and production wells. To estimate reservoir performance uncertainty, comprehensive simulations on many reservoir model realisations are necessary, which is very CPU consuming and time demanding. Alternatively, we can use much simpler and physically based methods such as percolation approach. Classic percolation assumes connectivity between opposite 2-D faces of a 3-D system; whereas, hydrocarbon production is achieved through active wells that are one-dimensional lines (e.g. vertical, horizontal or deviated wells). The main contribution of this study is to analyse the percolation properties of 3-D continuum percolation models with more realistic well representations during secondary recovery. In particular, the connection of randomly distributed sands (i.e. good-quality rock types) between two lines (representing two wells) located at two corners of the system are modelled by Monte Carlo simulations. Subsequently, the connectivity and conductivity of such a line-to-line well representation is compared with that of face-to-face well representations in the previously published results. The critical percolation properties of those systems as well as the universality concept are also investigated. As there are many rooms for connections in 3-D models, we found that the principal percolation properties will not be altered significantly when the problem with a face-to-face connection is transformed to a line-to-line connection model. 相似文献
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通过碳酸盐岩地层中的纯碳酸盐岩、缝合线缝隙物和泥质条带有机质含量和残留烃量分析表明,碳酸盐岩地层中不同的组成部分之间有机质的分布是不均匀的,其中缝合线缝隙物和泥质条带具有高的TOC值和较低的S1/ TOC 值,而纯碳酸盐岩TOC值则很低,但其S1/ TOC 却很高。这说明缝合线缝隙物和泥质条带发生了明显的排烃作用,而纯碳酸盐岩排烃作用不明显。因此可以认为高有机质丰度的缝合线缝隙物和泥质条带是碳酸盐岩地层烃源的主要贡献者。压溶作用对碳酸盐岩的排烃起重要作用。 相似文献
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湖北大冶铁山地区缝合线三维形态模拟及其成因分析 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
广泛发育于碳酸盐岩中的缝合线构造可以用来分析构造应力方位、计算岩层的有限应变和恢复原始地层厚度;同时,缝合线可以是石油、天然气和地下水的储积场所和运移通道。湖北大冶铁山地区发育有大量的缝合线构造。通过影像云纹法和GIS技术恢复了采自该地区的数枚缝合线标本的三维数字形态。利用该模型对缝合线的尺度、坡角、粗糙度、谷底点分布、二维剖面形态和压溶量等进行了定量分析,完善了缝合线的几何形态学研究并在此基础上对其成因进行了解释,认为铁山地区的缝合线主要由成岩压实作用和压溶作用形成,缝合线在从初始到各种复杂形态的发展过程中主要受两个因素控制：一是岩石的力学性质;二是由主压应力引起的局部应力集中而产生的溶解释放。
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Prof. Dr. Hans Füchtbauer 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1978,67(3):991-1008
The origin of quartz cement in sandstones can be attributed to supplies (1) from the surrounding shales, and (2) to a lower degree from dissolution of quartz on stylolites within the sandstones. A supply from the surrounding shales, which has been shown by the porosity decrease near the upper and lower surfaces of different sandstones (Füchtbauer, 1974), can be explained by the following observations in Upper Triassic and Middle Jurassic sandstones and siltstones of Northern Germany as well as in concretions of Devonian to Upper Cretaceous age from different localities:
- Quartz grains in silt layers are flattened by dissolution compared with quartz grains of the same size in the adjacent sandstones, the amount of shrinking being about 35 percent (fig. 1).
- Concretions prevent the enclosed insoluble residues from diagenesis. The main difference between the concretions and the adjacent shale of 31 occurrences examined is the quartz content, which is by 10–50 percent lower in the adjacent shale, due to diagenetical dissolution (fig. 2).