Fluvial deposits within the Pleistocene Crag at Thorpe St Andrew,Norwich, England     

Elvin Thurston 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》2013

This paper records the findings at a temporary exposure at Thorpe St Andrew near Norwich, Norfolk, UK in Early and early Middle Pleistocene Crag deposits. The British Geological Survey (BGS) describes the particular formation exposed as Norwich Crag consisting of Early Pleistocene shallow marine sediments. The section shows a succession of sorted sands and gravels overlain by a sandy diamicton. Based on field evidence and clast analysis, the sands and gravels are interpreted as the product of point bar and overbank sedimentation and represent the product of a river cutting into and aggrading within the more widespread shallow marine deposits. Composition of the sediments indicates derivation, primarily from Wroxham Crag Formation, with a contribution from Norwich Crag. The sandy diamicton is interpreted as late Middle Pleistocene Corton Till that is recorded in the area. A distinct pattern of colour changes at the top of the sands and gravels is interpreted as a soil that developed on the fluvial sediments before being overridden by the glacier that deposited the Corton Till. The existence of the fluvial sediments within the regional shallow marine deposits suggests that a fall of sea-level, possibly due to climate cooling, while the elevation of the sediments and the adjacent Crag implies that the site has been uplifted since sedimentation. This is the first observation of terrestrial sediments within the shallow marine Crag. The paper also makes a contribution to understanding the diagenetic processes that give deposits within this region some distinctive colour and sediment patterns.  相似文献   

Fracture-aperture size—frequency,spatial distribution,and growth processes in strata-bounded and non-strata-bounded fractures,Cambrian Mesón Group,NW Argentina     

《Journal of Structural Geology》2013

In Cambrian Mesón Group, NW Argentina, small faults and three opening-mode fracture sets defined by orientation and cement texture (Sets 1–3) formed sequentially in sandstone that most likely had constant mechanical properties throughout deformation. Yet the opening-mode sets display contrasting fracture-aperture-size distributions, spacing patterns, and tendency to be bed bounded. Set 1 fractures are quartz-filled or -lined opening-mode fractures with crack-seal texture, having a wide range of opening-displacement (kinematic aperture) sizes; they are irregularly spaced and non-strata-bounded fractures. Set 1 macro and microfracture-opening-displacement sizes are well described by a power law with slope −0.8. Set 2 fractures are microscopic, mostly quartz filled and have characteristic aperture sizes, are probably not bed bounded and have either a near-random or clustered spatial distribution. Set 3 fractures are quartz-lined, opening-mode fractures with extensive open pore space, having a narrow (characteristic) opening-displacement size distribution; they are regularly spaced and stratabounded. Differences between Sets 1 and 3 can be accounted for by quartz deposition resisting fracture reopening to a greater extent for Set 1 during repeated, episodic growth, where crack-seal texture is present in fracture-spanning quartz. In contrast Set 3 fractures are nearly barren with only trace-cement deposits that did not resist opening. Power-law opening-displacement size distributions may be favored in cases where fracture growth is unequally partitioned amongst variably cemented fractures, whereas a characteristic size is favored where growth is unaffected by cementation. Results imply that thermal history and diagenesis are important for fracture-size-distribution patterning.  相似文献   

页岩孔隙演化及其与残留烃量的耦合关系：来自地质过程约束模拟实验的证据     

崔景伟  朱如凯  崔京钢 《地质学报》2013,87(5):730-736

加强页岩孔隙演化规律研究,特别是定量评价其与残留烃之间的关系对页岩油的勘探具有重要意义。采集鄂尔多斯盆地低成熟度湖相Ⅰ型富有机质页岩,通过地质条件约束(埋藏史、地层压力、地层水矿化度等)成岩物理模拟实验模拟页岩演化,利用压汞法、氮气吸附法和二氧化碳吸附法获得不同温压段页岩的比孔容、比表面积和孔径分布,结合氯仿沥青A抽提定量结果,确定孔隙演化规律及其与残留烃的关系。结果表明页岩大孔比孔容与残留烃含量先增加后减小,微孔和中孔的比孔容随着模拟实验温度的增加呈现先减小后增大。XRD分析显示黄铁矿含量控制大孔,有机质丰度和粘土含量控制微孔和中孔。微孔和中孔的比孔容增加为高—过成熟度阶段页岩气提供储集空间,大孔比孔容与残留烃含量变化一致,生油窗阶段大孔增加是页岩油的有利储集带。  相似文献   

The Ge/Si ratio as a tool to recognize biogenic silica in chert     

Nicolas Tribovillard 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2013,345(3):160-165

Germanium and silicon, dissolved in seawater, are considered to be incorporated into biogenic opal with no or little fractionation, which permitted to use diatoms as reliable recorders of seawater Ge/Si. Does some fractionation occur during diagenesis, preventing the use of Ge/Si in ancient sediments? We examined the Ge/Si ratio of fossil sponges and flint nodules of the Cretaceous Chalk Formation of northern France. Though disputed, silica in this formation is considered to originate from sponges. No fractionation is observed between sponges and diagenetic flints, which allows us to observe whether Ge/Si bears a biogenic or detrital signature. We may thus confirm that sponges were the main silica supplier during the chalk deposition. The Ge/Si ratio may be used to identify a biogenic signature in cherts where the origin of silica is dubious.  相似文献   

Relating background fractures to diagenesis and rock physical properties in a platform–slope transect. Example of the Maiella Mountain (central Italy)     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2014

Fractured reservoirs are of prime interest as fracture networks control most of the fluid flow and/or accumulation. However, characterizing 3D fracture patterns from subsurface data remains challenging. Studying fractures on outcrops is a good substitution to 1D data from subsurface exploration tools. In addition, outcrops allow deciphering the nature, origin and conditions for fracture formation through the geodynamic history. In this paper, we aim at characterizing the true 3D fracture patterns and determining the genetic role of facies, diagenesis and rock physical properties. We targeted a platform–slope transect within a carbonate reservoir analog, the Maiella Mountain in central Italy, where implications for analog hydrocarbon reservoir can be discussed.Fracture patterns are sorted based on geometric and kinematic criteria from field measurements and petrographic analyzes on thin-sections. Sedimentary facies, pore types and rock physical properties have been characterized in order to establish the impact of early diagenesis on rock evolution. Diagenetic sequences have been unraveled and correlated to the fractures. Fracture sequences have been determined considering the cross-cutting relationships and compared with burial–uplift history. In the two studied formations (platform and slope carbonates), we interpret a stage of fracturing perpendicular to bedding, formed at shallow depth and occurring prior to major regional tectonic events. The studied carbonates have undergone early diagenesis during fast and shallow burial, conferring early brittle behavior. The amount of stylolites is not correlated to burial depth but to fracture density, porosity and free air P–wave velocity. It means that fracture development, mechanical and petrophysical properties are acquired during early diagenesis.Both studied formations have undergone the same geodynamic history and their brittle response is different and not related to folding but to burial and early cementation. Deciphering the close relationship between sedimentary facies, diagenetic and geodynamic history has allowed unraveling the controling factors on rock properties and therefore on fracture pattern.  相似文献   

An introduction to the Special Issue of Marine and Petroleum Geology: Fluid–rock–tectonics interactions in basins and orogens     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2014

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Impact of basin burial and exhumation on Jurassic carbonates diagenesis on both sides of a thick clay barrier (Paris Basin,NE France)     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2014

Several diagenetic models have been proposed for Middle and Upper Jurassic carbonates of the eastern Paris Basin. The paragenetic sequences are compared in both aquifers to propose a diagenetic model for the Middle and Late Jurassic deposits as a whole. Petrographic (optical and cathodoluminescence microscopy), structural (fracture orientations) and geochemical (δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C, REE) studies were conducted to characterize diagenetic cements, with a focus on blocky calcite cements, and their connection with fracturation events. Four generations of blocky calcite (Cal1–Cal4) are identified. Cal1 and Cal2 are widespread in the dominantly grain-supported facies of the Middle Jurassic limestones (about 90% of the cementation), whereas they are limited in the Oxfordian because grain-supported facies are restricted to certain stratigraphic levels. Cal1 and Cal2 blocky spars precipitated during burial in a reducing environment from mixed marine-meteoric waters and/or buffered meteoric waters. The meteoric waters probably entered aquifers during the Late Cimmerian (Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary) and Late Aptian (Early Cretaceous) unconformities. The amount of Cal2 cement is thought to be linked to the intensity of burial pressure dissolution, which in turn was partly controlled by the clay content of the host rocks. Cal3 and Cal4 are associated with telogenetic fracturing phases. The succession of Cal3 and Cal4 calcite relates to the transition towards oxidizing conditions during an opening of the system to meteoric waters at higher water/rock ratios. These meteoric fluids circulated along Pyrenean, Oligocene and Alpine fractures and generated both dissolution and subsequent cementation in Oxfordian vugs in mud-supported facies and in poorly stylolitized grainstones. However, these cements filled only the residual porosity in Middle Jurassic limestones. In addition to fluorine inputs, fracturation also permitted inputs of sulphur possibly due to weathering of Triassic or Purbeckian evaporites or H₂S input during Paleogene times.  相似文献   

Dolomitization of the lower Ordovician Catoche formation: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration in western Newfoundland   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J. Conliffe  K. Azmy 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2012,30(1):161-173

The lower Ordovician St. George Group in Western Newfoundland consists of a sequence of subtidal and peritidal carbonates, which are extensively dolomitized. The current study investigates the diagenetic evolution of the Catoche Formation from the Port aux Choix and Port au Port peninsulas in order to study the controls on reservoir quality in western Newfoundland. The Catoche Formation dolomites are classified into three main generations. Early and pervasive replacement dolomite (D1) indicates that dolomitization began during early stages of diagenesis. Stable isotope and trace element data indicate significant variations between D1 dolomite on the Port aux Choix and Port au Port peninsulas. The depleted δ¹⁸O signature of D1 dolomite fluids (−8.7 ± 1.3‰ VPBD) on the Port aux Choix Peninsula is consistent with partial dolomitization associated with mixing of seawater and meteoric waters on the flanks of structural highs. In contrast δ¹⁸O values (−6.1 ± 0.7‰ VPBD) and trace element data from the Port au Port Peninsula indicate that pervasive D1 was associated with mixing of possibly post evaporitic brines with meteoric waters.Later-stage replacement dolomites (D2) are associated with enhancement in porosity through the development of intercrystalline pores, while latest stage saddle dolomite (D3), significantly occluded the pores in some horizons. D2 dolomite formed due to the influx of warm (>100 °C), saline (>15 eq. wt% NaCl) fluids. Intercrystalline porosity in D2 formed due to the dolomitization of precursor calcite, due to the lower molar volume of dolomite compared to calcite. Therefore porosity development is lower on the Port au Port Peninsula, with no significant volume change during the recrystallization of the pervasive early (D1) dolomicrite. Similarly, extensive porous horizons on the Port aux Choix Peninsula are related to the limited extent of D1 dolomitization. This suggests that the quality of a potential dolomite reservoir is strongly controlled by tectonic and diagenetic history of host carbonates.  相似文献   

砂砾岩储集体成岩差异性分析 ——以玛北斜坡带三叠系百口泉组为例          下载免费PDF全文

韩登林  李雷连丽霞朱亚婷李维锋袁晓光张双源 《地质科学》2017,(2):428-439

凭借着高产油气流,玛湖凹陷北斜坡带百口泉组砂砾岩储层成为近年来颇受储层沉积学家们关注的热点区域。层段内砂砾岩储层储集物性表现出明显的差异性,其控制机理一直尚未明确。本文按照流体成因差异,将层段内岩石相划分为4 种类型：牵引流成因的砂砾岩相、含砾砂岩相、砂岩相,以及重力流成因的砂砾岩相。在不断埋深过程中,重力流砂砾岩相的压实进程远远早于且明显强于牵引流砂砾岩相。而随后持续深埋过程中,重力流砂砾岩相孔隙度不再明显降低,渗透率却呈现明显增加,表明重力流砂砾岩相内的微裂缝开始发育。上述压实效应的差异造成了在储集空间上,牵引流砂砾岩相以原生粒间孔为主要类型,而重力流砂砾岩相则以粒内溶孔和微裂缝为主要类型。最终在宏观储集物性上,牵引流砂砾岩相储集性能明显优于重力流砂砾岩相,成为研究层段内有效的储集体。  相似文献   

Overpressure preventing quartz cementation? - A reply     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2017

Chemical compaction and the relative importance of the pressure dissolution and illite-mica induced dissolution (IMID) models have remained a contentious issue, as is the role played by stress in chemical compaction. This paper offers further support and evidence as discussed in Stricker et al. (2016b), focusing on the reservoir quality of the Triassic Skagerrak Formation sandstones in the high pressure high temperature (HPHT) Central Graben, North Sea. The reply discusses alterative reservoir quality interpretations and comments as raised by Maast (2016). A series of theoretical and experimental studies, as well as field based evidence is presented providing strong support to the important role of stress (e.g. vertical effective stress) during chemical compaction. The evidence leads to the conclusion that the process of chemical compaction is stress and temperature driven and significantly enhanced by clay minerals, playing a catalytic role by increasing the width of diffusion pathway or by modifying the kinetics of the dissolution process.  相似文献