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湖南晚二叠世生物礁成岩作用的碳,氧同位素研究 总被引：6，自引：1，他引：5
本文通过对湖南晚二叠世生物礁中的有关胶结物及岩石的碳、氧稳定同位素研究,并结合薄片观察、探针成分分析、包裹体测温等,探讨了该地区生物礁成岩作用中的有关成岩特征。研究认为：①湖南晚二叠世生物礁中胶结物从早期到晚期δ＾１３Ｃ和δ＾１８Ｏ值总体上均有变轻的趋势,反映了礁体为一连续埋藏的成岩过程;②生物礁中所见白云石化现象主要属埋藏压实成因,礁休基本未受早期淡水或混合水影响;③礁中粗晶方解石胶结物形成于深 相似文献
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贵州紫云县猴场镇扁平村的上石炭统叶状藻礁及其周边灰岩中广泛发育大量的各类胶结物。通过对胶结物的形态、结构和阴极发光特征以及胶结物间的接触关系的研究,可以确定成岩作用的先后并识别成岩环境。浅海海底同生成岩阶段大的孔隙中形成等厚环边针状胶结物、葡萄状胶结物,小的孔隙里形成微晶胶结物。早成岩阶段形成微亮晶和斑块状亮晶方解石胶结物和放射纤维扇状胶结物,表生成岩阶段的溶蚀作用和胶结作用强烈,胶结物类型有斑块状或等粒的方解石胶结物和等厚环壁柱状胶结物,等厚环壁柱状胶结物在所有胶结物中体积是较大的。早期胶结作用使叶状藻礁灰岩孔隙度大为降低。中、晚成岩阶段,孔隙被等厚环壁刃状胶结物和晶簇或斑块状亮晶方解石所充填,有些先成的胶结物被热液改造。后生作用阶段发生的主要是构造破裂作用,其中少数裂隙被红褐色含Fe2O3微晶层和晶体粉砂及渗流豆粒充填。叶状藻礁灰岩的孔隙在晚成岩阶段前或中被胶结而之后没有创造出大且连通的孔隙,是它没能成为油气储集层的原因之一。 相似文献
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川东北地区上二叠统盘龙洞生物礁成岩作用研究 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
本文对宣汉盘龙洞上二叠统生物礁古油气藏成岩作用进行了详细的研究。其主要成岩作用类型有胶结作用、新生变形作用、白云岩化作用、去白云岩化作用以及压溶和溶解作用等。根据岩石中胶结物的胶结结构和矿物特征,初步判断该生物礁主要经历了海底成岩环境、大气淡水渗流潜流环境、海水与淡水混合带成岩环境和埋藏成岩环境。该区的白云岩主要是混合白云岩化形成的。值得强调的是,该区白云岩化作用和溶蚀作用对该生物礁岩石孔隙度的增加贡献很大,提供了良好的油气储集空间,这对恢复该生物礁储层孔隙发育历史,以及油气勘探和评价都有很重要的意义。 相似文献
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东营凹陷古近系孔店组成岩特征及对储层的控制 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
通过岩石薄片、扫描电镜、镜质体反射率、X衍射、物性分析等资料,对东营断陷盆地古近系孔店组成岩作用进行研究。结果表明:原始碎屑组分和化学沉积分异作用引起的早期胶结物性质决定了后期的成岩演化;典型成岩现象有强烈压实作用、硬石膏胶结、多期次碳酸盐胶结、多期次粘土矿物胶结、硅质强烈胶结、矿物强烈穿插交代、碎屑颗粒和胶结物的溶解作用,各种成岩现象对深部碎屑岩储层均产生重要影响。同时也证实:压实作用是引起深部碎屑岩强烈致密化的主要原因;硬石膏胶结、碳酸盐胶结和硅质胶结是引起致密化的又一重要原因;长石、碳酸盐胶结物的溶解作用是引起该地区储层改善的主要成岩因素。 相似文献
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川东北地区上二叠统盘龙洞生物礁成岩作用研究 总被引：23，自引：2，他引：21
本文对宣汉盘龙洞上二叠统生物礁古油气藏成岩作用进行了详细的研究。其主要成岩作用类型有胶结作用、新生变形作用、白云岩化作用、去白云岩化作用以及压溶和溶解作用等。根据岩石中胶结物的胶结结构和矿物特征,初步判断该生物礁主要经历了海底成岩环境、大气淡水渗流潜流环境、海水与淡水混合带成岩环境和埋藏成岩环境。该区的白云岩主要是混合白云岩化形成的。值得强调的是,该区白云岩化作用和溶蚀作用对该生物礁岩石孔隙度的增加贡献很大,提供了良好的油气储集空间,这对恢复该生物礁储层孔隙发育历史,以及油气勘探和评价都有很重要的意义。 相似文献
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本文对宣汉盘龙洞上二叠统生物礁古油气藏成岩作用进行了详细的研究.其主要成岩作用类型有胶结作用、新生变形作用、白云岩化作用、去白云岩化作用以及压溶和溶解作用等.根据岩石中胶结物的胶结结构和矿物特征,初步判断该生物礁主要经历了海底成岩环境、大气淡水渗流潜流环境、海水与淡水混合带成岩环境和埋藏成岩环境.该区的白云岩主要是混合白云岩化形成的.值得强调的是,该区白云岩化作用和溶蚀作用对该生物礁岩石孔隙度的增加贡献很大,提供了良好的油气储集空间,这对恢复该生物礁储层孔隙发育历史,以及油气勘探和评价都有很重要的意义. 相似文献
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通过岩石薄片、扫描电镜、镜质体反射率、X衍射、物性分析等资料,对东营断陷盆地古近系孔店组成岩演化及控制因素进行详细研究。研究结果表明:东营断陷盆地孔店组典型成岩现象有强烈压实作用、硬石膏胶结、多期次碳酸盐胶结、多期次粘土矿物胶结、硅质强烈胶结、矿物强烈穿插交代、碎屑颗粒和胶结物的溶解作用;其中,压实作用是引起深部碎屑岩强烈致密化的主要原因;硬石膏胶结、碳酸盐胶结、硅质胶结是引起致密化的又一重要原因;长石、碳酸盐胶结物的溶解作用是引起该地区储层改善的主要成岩因素;成岩演化经历了准同生期-中成岩B期,部分达到晚成岩期的演化过程,成岩演化过程控制了深部碎屑岩孔隙演化;并推断原始干旱-半干旱沉积环境、基准面变化、深埋藏环境、构造-岩浆活动是控制成岩及孔隙演化的主要因素。 相似文献
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以层序地层研究为基础,根据铸体薄片、扫描电镜、镜质体反射率、X衍射及地球化学等分析,对东营凹陷沙河街组层序与成岩的关系进行了系统研究。研究结果表明:不同层序部位具有不同的成岩响应,低位体系域主要发育微晶方解石胶结、硬石膏胶结、黄铁矿胶结等,湖盆扩张体系域主要发育有铁碳酸盐胶结、粘土矿物胶结等;高位体系域主要发育有白云石胶结、铁白云石胶结、溶蚀作用、粘土矿物胶结等;层序界面附近主要发育溶蚀现象和铁碳酸盐岩胶结现象。层序发育过程中,原始水介质条件及元素富集规律是引起早期成岩响应的主要因素,并对早期的成岩物质组分造成强烈影响;讨论了层序对成岩演化的控制作用,主要体现在3个方面:a.层序发育控制了原始成岩组分,进而控制后期成岩改造;b.早期成岩作用对层序发育过程具有一定的响应关系,后期成岩改造掩盖了部分成岩响应;c.层序界面通过河流作用、沉积间断减缓压实作用、后期成岩流体的侵入作用对成岩演化造成影响。 相似文献
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本文主要在岩心观察和描述的基础上,借助于薄片分析、扫描电镜分析和阴极发光分析,通过不同成岩组构的识别及其成岩作用特征分析,结合区域地质背景,恢复珠江口盆地东沙隆起珠江组灰岩经历的成岩环境。结果表明:(1)整体的海侵背景和渐进埋藏过程使得珠江组灰岩中不发育表生成岩作用,但是频繁的海平面变化使得古地貌高部位生长的灰岩受到大气淡水的成岩改造,珠江组灰岩主要经历了海水潜流、大气淡水渗流、大气淡水潜流和埋藏环境等成岩环境;(2)不同成岩环境具有明显不同的成岩组构特征。海水潜流环境的成岩组构主要有广泛发育的藻的包壳作用和藻类-生物的相互包裹、生物钻孔的发育、泥晶化作用、海绿石的形成以及等厚纤维状环边胶结物、颗粒表面的刀刃状或叶片状胶结物、犬牙状胶结物和共轴生长方解石胶结物的发育;淡水潜流环境的主要成岩特征包括粒状亮晶方解石胶结物、棘皮多期共轴加大边和有限的溶解作用;淡水渗流环境中识别的成岩特征有非组构选择性溶解作用、示底构造、微型钟乳状胶结物和新月形胶结物;埋藏成岩环境的成岩作用主要包括压实、压溶作用、晚期溶蚀作用以及油气的侵位。 相似文献
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利用薄片确定砂岩类型、扫描电镜观察碎屑岩微观特征并划分成岩阶段以及对岩石储层进行物性测试分析等方法,系统地探究了内蒙古索伦地区中二叠统哲斯组碎屑岩成岩作用及其对储层物性的影响。研究表明该地区砂岩胶结物有钙质胶结物、硅质胶结物、黏土矿物胶结物和凝灰质胶结物,其中钙质胶结物多为方解石,硅质胶结主要表现为石英次生加大,黏土胶结物以伊利石为主,凝灰质胶结物在该地区出现较少。地化数据显示哲斯组泥岩有机质镜质体反射率值(Ro)在2%~4%之间、最高热解温度(T_(max))490℃、伊利石/蒙皂石(I/S)的蒙皂石层15%;薄片镜下观察发现碎屑颗粒间以线接触为主,扫描电镜观察石英次生加大级别为Ⅲ—Ⅳ级。综合分析确定内蒙古索伦地区哲斯组碎屑岩处于晚成岩阶段B期—C期。压实和胶结作用一定程度上降低砂岩的孔隙度和渗透率;而溶蚀溶解作用提高砂岩的孔隙度和渗透率。 相似文献
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Thomas Mann Andr Wizemann Marleen Stuhr Yannis Kappelmann Alexander Janßen Jamaluddin Jompa Hildegard Westphal 《Sedimentology》2022,69(1):282-300
Early-diagenetic cementation of tropical carbonates results from the combination of numerous physico-chemical and biological processes. In the marine phreatic environment it represents an essential mechanism for the development and stabilization of carbonate platforms. However, diagenetic cements that developed early in the marine phreatic environment are likely to become obliterated during later stages of meteoric or burial diagenesis. When lithified sediment samples are studied, this complicates the recognition of processes involved in early cementation, and their geological implications. In this contribution, a petrographic microfacies analysis of Holocene Halimeda segments collected on a coral island in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia, is presented. Through electron microscopical analyses of polished samples, this study shows that segments are characterized by intragranular cementation of fibrous aragonite, equant High-Mg calcite (3.9 to 7.2 Mol% Mg), bladed Low-Mg calcite (0.4 to 1.0 Mol% Mg) and mini-micritic Low-Mg calcite (3.2 to 3.3 Mol% Mg). The co-existence and consecutive development of fibrous aragonite and equant High-Mg calcite results initially from the flow of oversaturated seawater along the aragonite template of the Halimeda skeleton, followed by an adjustment of cement mineralogy towards High-Mg calcite as a result of reduced permeability and fluid flow rates in the pores. Growth of bladed Low-Mg calcite cements on top of etched substrates of equant High-Mg calcite is explained by shifts in pore water pH and alkalinity through microbial sulphate reduction. Microbial activity appears to be the main trigger for the precipitation of mini-micritic Low-Mg calcite as well, based on the presumable detection of an extracellular polymeric matrix during an early stage of mini-micrite Low-Mg calcite cement precipitation. Radiocarbon analyses of five Halimeda segments furthermore indicate that virtually complete intragranular cementation in the marine phreatic environment with thermodynamically/kinetically controlled aragonite and High-Mg calcite takes place in about 100 years. Collectively, this study shows that early-diagenetic cements are highly diverse and provides new quantitative constraints on the rate of diagenetic cementation in tropical carbonate factories. 相似文献
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The Pennsylvanian phylloid algal mounds exposed in the Cervatina Limestone of the Cantabrian Zone (NW Spain) developed during the highstands of high-frequency shallowing-upward cycles and lack evidence of subaerial exposure at their tops. Mound core facies are composed of massive bafflestones with variable amounts of calcite cements and anchicodiacean phylloid algae with cyathiform thalli preserved in growth position. Through standard petrographic, isotopic (δ18O and δ13C), major and trace element (Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Sr) and cathodoluminescence analyses, five calcite cement phases (cement 1 (C1)–cement 5 (C5)) have been identified filling primary and secondary pores. Early marine diagenesis is represented by micritization and non-luminescent to mottled-dull luminescent high-Mg calcite fibrous marine cement (C1). A dissolution phase then occurred and created vuggy and moldic pores. Based on the absence of field or petrographical or geochemical evidence of exposure, it is inferred that dissolution occurred in near-surface undersaturated marine waters with respect to aragonite related to progressive organic matter oxidation. Secondary porosity was subsequently filled by dull-bright-dull bladed high-Mg calcite (C2), which precipitated in the early shallow burial from marine-derived pore waters. Remaining porosity was occluded by shallow-burial precipitates consisting of non-luminescent scalenohedral low-Mg calcite (C3) followed by non-ferroan dull luminescent calcite spar (C4). Latter phases of calcite spar exhibiting non- and dull luminescence (C5) are associated with burial calcite veins. Low δ18O values (around ?8‰), moderately depleted δ13C values (around 0.5‰) and the homogeneity of trace element contents of carbonate matrix, cements and vein-filling calcites suggest burial isotopic re-equilibration and recrystallization, probably in Early Permian times during post-thrusting orocline formation. 相似文献
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为分析陆相页岩中方解石的成因及其对储层的影响,以四川盆地下侏罗统大安寨段的介壳泥岩与灰岩夹层为主要研究对象,利用X-射线衍射、普通薄片、岩芯观察、阴极发光及电子探针测试手段,识别出文石转化方解石、胶结物方解石和重结晶作用形成的方解石。在同生期和成岩早期,生物介壳中的文石转化为泥晶无铁方解石,阴极发光为橙黄色。成岩早期,生物介壳边缘可形成纤维状第一世代无铁方解石胶结物。在成岩晚期,岩石孔隙中形成颗粒状铁方解石胶结物,阴极发光为暗色。同时,部分介壳中的泥晶方解石新生变形为斑块状细晶方解石或柱状方解石。根据方解石的存在形式可知,方解石在成岩演化过程中,经历了转化、压实、溶解、胶结和重结晶作用。其中,溶解作用改善储层的物性。压实、胶结和重结晶作用破坏储集空间。统计裂缝密度发现,元坝地区大安寨段层理缝最为发育,涪陵地区大安寨段以层理缝和溶蚀缝为主。结果表明,方解石介壳有利于大安寨段内岩石层理缝和溶蚀缝的产生。 相似文献
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The Middle Jurassic Khatatba Formation acts as a hydrocarbon reservoir in the subsurface in the Western Desert, Egypt. This study, which is based on core samples from two exploration boreholes, describes the lithological and diagenetic characteristics of the Khatatba Formation sandstones. The sandstones are fine‐ to coarse‐grained, moderately to well‐sorted quartz arenites, deposited in fluvial channels and in a shallow‐marine setting. Diagenetic components include mechanical and chemical compaction, cementation (calcite, clay minerals, quartz overgrowths, and a minor amount of pyrite), and dissolution of calcite cements and feldspar grains. The widespread occurrence of an early calcite cement suggests that the Khatatba sandstones lost a significant amount of primary porosity at an early stage of its diagenetic history. In addition to calcite, several different cements including kaolinite and syntaxial quartz overgrowth occur as pore‐filling and pore‐lining cements. Kaolinite (largely vermicular) fills pore spaces and causes reduction in the permeability of the reservoir. Based on framework grain–cement relationships, precipitation of the early calcite cement was either accompanied by or followed the development of part of the pore‐lining and pore‐filling cements. Secondary porosity development occurred due to partial to complete dissolution of early calcite cements and feldspar. Late kaolinite clay cement occurs due to dissolved feldspar and has an impact on the reservoir quality of the Khatatba sandstones. Open hydraulic fractures also generated significant secondary porosity in sandstone reservoirs, where both fractures and dissolution took place in multiple phases during late diagenetic stages. The diagenesis and sedimentary facies help control the reservoir quality of the Khatatba sandstones. Fluvial channel sandstones have the highest porosities and permeabilities, in part because of calcite cementation, which inhibited authigenic clays or was later dissolved, creating intergranular secondary porosity. Fluvial crevasse‐splay and marine sandstones have the lowest reservoir quality because of an abundance of depositional kaolinite matrix and pervasive, shallow‐burial calcite and quartz overgrowth cements, respectively. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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开江-梁平地区上二叠统长兴组储层岩石学特征 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
以露头剖面测量、单井岩芯观察和室内薄片鉴定为依据,结合不同结构和成因类型白云岩(或白云石)的n(Mg)/n(Ca)比值,有序度和C、O、Sr同位素特征,对开江-梁平地区长兴组碳酸盐岩储层成岩作用与孔隙发育和演化规律进行了综合研究,确定研究区对储层破坏最大的成岩作用是胶结、压实-压溶、新生变形和次生矿物的充填等作用,而对储层贡献最大的建设性成岩作用主要为埋藏白云岩化、重结晶、溶蚀和破裂等作用,有效地改善了储层的孔渗性,形成以粒间溶孔、粒内溶孔、铸模孔、晶间溶孔、超大溶孔、溶洞和溶裂缝等多种次生孔隙类型组合的礁、滩相储层基本特征。在再造成岩序列和恢复孔隙演化历史的基础上,对储层发育与孔隙演化的关系可得出如下几点结论:①有利的礁、滩相带决定了储层发育的位置和空间展布规律;②礁、滩复合体的多期次埋藏白云岩化是形成储层的基础;③破裂作用和溶蚀作用是改造储层和提高储层质量的关键。 相似文献
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The application of cathodoluminescence to interpreting the diagenesis of an ancient calcrete profile 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
A laterally extensive calcrete profile has been identified in the Late Asbian (Lower Carboniferous) shallow marine shelf limestones of the Llangollen area, North Wales. The upper surface of the profile is defined by a laterally discontinuous palaeokarstic surface and by laminated calcareous crusts which developed within the underlying limestone. The profile contains a unique series of early pore-filling vadose cements which only occur down to 1 m below the palaeokarstic surface. Cathodoluminescence reveals that these cements pre-date the late pore-filling meteoric phreatic cements which occur throughout local Asbian lithologies. A spar cement stratigraphy has been established for the calcrete profile. Subaerial vadose cements comprise two generations of non-luminescent cement, followed by a brightly luminescent generation which occasionally shows an acicular habit. This needle-fibre calcite represents the final stage of vadose cementation. Precipitation of vadose cements was contemporary with subaerial alteration and micritization of the limestone. Textures, visible only with cathodoluminescence, provide evidence of recurrent periods of fabric dissolution. The most extensive phase of dissolution occurred immediately after the precipitation of the non-luminescent subaerial vadose cements. Several different textures have been recorded, each reflecting the morphology of a partially dissolved substrate. Dissolution textures are generally confined to the walls of the larger pores and to early brecciation fractures. These probably acted as fluid pathways in the calcrete during early subaerial diagenesis. Much of the non-marine micrite in the calcrete profile appears as needle-fibre calcite under cathodoluminescence. This acicular calcite was probably formed in response to localized supersaturation of meteoric pore fluids caused by periods of near-surface evaporation. Since needle-fibre luminescence is strongly variable, these ambient conditions are not believed to have directly controlled the activator ion concentrations of cementing pore waters. Needle-fibre calcite is considered to be a cement precipitate which has almost completely recrystallized to micrite, probably during the late stages of subaerial diagenesis. Two generations of subaerial micrite which define a ‘micrite stratigraphy’, have been distinguished under cathodoluminescence. Reconstructing the diagenetic history of this ancient calcrete profile has revealed that subaerial alteration was multistaged, with many diagenetic processes acting simultaneously during a single phase of emergence. 相似文献
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Stromatactis is a spar network whose elements in cross section have flat to undulose lower surfaces and digitate upper surfaces. The network is composed principally of isopachous crusts of centripetal cement and commonly occurs embedded in finely crystalline limestone. It is the cement filling of interconnected cavities. Stromatactis of Upper Silurian red stromatactis limestone from Gaspé Peninsula, Québec Appalachians, exhibits two types of cements: (1) an isopachous cement that lined the walls of the conduits and is interpreted as early marine; and (2) a later blocky cement that occupies the centres of cavities. The first cement is composed exclusively of non-ferroan calcite, whereas the second cement is mixed non-ferroan and ferroan calcite. The early isopachous cement is white on polished slabs and has a turbid aspect under transmitted light. In a few samples, the relative homogeneity of this early cement is broken by the presence of distinctive grey clear calcite. Under cathodoluminscence, the grey clear calcite is non-luminescent and exhibits well defined bladed crystal shapes, whereas the white turbid cement has a dull orange luminescence and indistinct crystal shapes. The relationships between the two cements indicate that the dull luminescent cement is a secondary form of the non-luminescent cement, and it is concluded that the dull cement is the product of alteration of the non-luminescent cement by burial or meteoric fluids. The later blocky cement has the same dull luminescence as the white turbid cement and is thought to have been precipitated from the same fluids as those responsible for the alteration of the early marine cements. Oxygen isotopic values of the dull cement of the early isopachous crusts (mean δ18O= -6.8%o are intermediate between those of the non-luminescent early marine cement (mean δ18O= -5.3%o) and the dull luminescent blocky cement (mean δ18O= -11.8%o), while carbon isotopic values do not differ significantly (δ13C=+2.9, +2.4 and +2.6%o, respectively). The alteration also has affected the distribution of some trace elements, particularly Mg. Both unaltered and altered cements contain less than 1% microdolomite inclusions, but the Mg content of the background calcite of unaltered cement is three times that of altered cement (14171 vs. 5502 ppm). Precursor early marine cement is thought to have been low-Mg calcite. The mean δ18O value (− 5.3%o) of unaltered early marine cement is higher than values for the oxygen isotopic signature of Silurian oceans provided by brachiopod shells. 相似文献
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Relatively few studies have so far addressed diagenetic processes in Heterozoan carbonates and the role that sediment composition and depositional facies exert over diagenetic pathways. This paper presents a study of Oligocene shallow-water, Heterozoan carbonates from the Maltese Islands. We investigate stratigraphic distribution, abundance and timing of diagenetic features and their relationship to sediment composition and depositional facies. The studied carbonate rocks comprise rud- to packstones of the Heterozoan association predominantly containing coralline red algae, bryozoans, echinoids and benthic foraminifers. XRD analyses show that all high-Mg calcite has been transformed to low-Mg calcite and that no aragonite is preserved. Diagenetic processes include dissolution of aragonitic biota, neomorphism of high-Mg calcitic biota to low-Mg calcite and cementation by fibrous, bladed, epitaxial and blocky cements. Stable isotopes on bulk rock integrated with petrographic data suggest that the study interval was not exposed to significant meteoric diagenesis. We interpret early cementation to have taken place in the marine and marine burial environment. The distribution and abundance of early diagenetic features, determining the diagenetic pathway, can be related to the primary sediment composition and depositional texture. Sorting and micrite content are important controls over the abundance of diagenetic features. 相似文献
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Johannes H. Schroeder 《Sedimentary Geology》1973,10(3):179-204
Well-rounded pebbles and cobbles of reef rock, which in bio- and lithofacies closely resembles the Recent algal cup reefs, occur in the basal conglomerate of the Pleistocene Devonshire Formation cropping out along Grape Bay on the south shore of Bermuda. The framebuilders of this rock include coralline red algae, vermetid gastropods, and barnacles. Study by petrographic microscope, electron microprobe, and SEM revealed aragonite-needle and spherulitic cements, high-Mg calcite micrite and palisade cements including calcified algal filaments. Two or three generations of these may occur in a given pore. By analogy with the Recent cup-reef material, on the basis of their composition (high strontium content of aragonite, high magnesium content of calcite) and of circumstantial evidence, these are considered submarine cements.In addition, a vadose blocky low-Mg calcite cement occurs, which never precedes any, but frequently succeedes one, two, or three of the above cements. Its fabrics vary: it may exhibit an increase in crystal size toward the center or not, it may or may not be bounded by the meniscus outline characteristic of the vadose diagenetic environment. The limitation of cement precipitation by a meniscus gives rise to a large diversity of forms determined by respective combinations of solution supply, permeability of the micro-environment, and substrate morphology. To illustrate the diversity, the meniscus cement is shown in relation to sediment particles, aragonite-needle cement, and calcified filaments.From the blocky low-Mg cement, selective neomorphism extends into some aragonitic gastropod shells; it is controlled, in part, by original shell structure. The resulting low-Mg calcite mosaic is characterized by relic structures and plane crystalline boundaries. Aragonite needles between blocky calcite cement and neomorphic calcite were not affected by the process of mineralogic alteration.This study shows that cements recognized earlier in Recent Bermuda cup reefs can be traced into the past and that additions to the diagenetic sequence can be distinguished. Knowledge of these features and their sequences should help decipher the diagenetic history of other fossil reefs. 相似文献