Grain Association, Petrography, and Lithofacies

Diego A. Kietzmann, Federico González Tomassini, Taury Smith

AAPG Special Volumes

.... McLin, and J. Petriello, 2010, Imaging texture and porosity in mudstones and shales: Comparison of secondary and ion-milled backscatter SEM methods...

Dolomitization of Miocene Carbonates, Gulf of Suez, Egypt

M. Coniglio, N. P. James, D. M. Aissaoui

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... variations are too small, however, to be detected with either microprobe or SEM backscatter analysis. Subtle intrasample differences in luminescence also...

Characteristics, Distribution and Origin of Porosity in Shelf Dolostones: Burlington-Keokuk Formation (Mississippian), U.S. Mid-Continent

Philip W. Choquette, Ann Cox, William J. Meyers

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... photomicrographs showing sheetlike micropores (arrow) between dolomite rhombs as seen in an SEM by secondary electron imaging (A) and backscatter electron...

Late Quaternary Deltaic and Carbonate Sedimentation in the Gulf of Papua Foreland Basin: Response to Sea-Level Change

P.T. Harris , C.B. Pattiaratchi , J.B. Keene , R.W. Dalrymple , J.V. Gardner , E.K. Baker , A.R. Cole , D. Mitchell , P. Gibbs , W.W. Schroeder

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... data obtained along most of the 2000 km of geophysical survey lines (Figs. 6, 7) provide information on seabed acoustic backscatter. For the purposes...

High-Density Suspensions Formed Under Waves

Michael P. Lamb, Jeffrey D. Parsons

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., and Curtis, A., 1999, Acoustic backscatter of the 1995 flood deposit on the Eel shelf: Marine Geology, v. 154, p. 197–210. Carstens, M.R., Neilson...

Impact of Local Morphology on Sedimentation in a Submarine Canyon, ROV Studies in Eel Canyon, Northern California, U.S.A.

Tina M. Drexler, Charles A. Nittrouer, Beth L. Mullenbach

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... 154, p. 243–254. Borgeld, J.C., Hughes Clark, J.E., Goff, J.A., Mayer, L.A., and Curtis, J.A., 1999, Acoustic backscatter of the 1995 flood deposit...

High-Resolution Facies Analyses of Mudstones: Implications for Paleoenvironmental and Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations of Offshore Ancient Mud-Dominated Successions

Joe H. S. Macquaker, Kevin G. Taylor, Rob L. Gawthorpe

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... characteristics and backscatter coefficients (η), identity was confirmed utilizing semi-quantitative energy-dispersive spectrometry (PGT with windowless detector...

Evolution of fracture and fault-controlled fluid pathways in carbonates of the Albanides fold-thrust belt

Brita R. Graham Wall, Radu Girbacea, Agim Mesonjesi, Atilla Aydin

AAPG Bulletin

... 0.2 and 1.5 cm (0.08 and 0.59 in.). The porosity in the fault breccia zone alone is about 7%, calculated from a backscatter electron image composite...

Modern internal waves and internal tides along oceanic pycnoclines: Challenges and implications for ancient deep-marine baroclinic sands: Reply

G. Shanmugam

AAPG Bulletin

... in the Makassar Strait: Insights from high-resolution multibeam bathymetry and backscatter, subbottom profiles, and USBL-navigated cores: 29th Annual Indonesian...

The Paleozoic Hudson Bay Basin in northern Canada: New insights into hydrocarbon potential of a frontier intracratonic basin

Denis Lavoie, Nicolas Pinet, Jim Dietrich, and Zhuoheng Chen

AAPG Bulletin

... a sharp boundary defining a small-enclosed region (<1000 ha), sufficient backscatter contrast (i.e., −10 dB) between the background sea state and the dark...

Mechanism of hydrocarbon accumulation and enrichment of tuffaceous tight oil with separate reservoir and source rock: A case study of tuff reservoir from the Permian Tiaohu Formation in the Santanghu Basin, northwest China

Jian Ma, Zhilong Huang, and Tianjun Li

AAPG Bulletin

... the secondary electron beam, backscatter electron, and energy-dispersive spectroscopy mineral identification. The accelerating voltage and resolution...

The magnetic fabric of the Wolfcamp shale, Midland Basin, west Texas: Understanding petrofabric variability, hydrocarbon associations, and iron enrichment

Gerhard W. Heij, and R. Douglas Elmore

AAPG Bulletin

...), Pj, T, and klf. Image Analysis Backscatter electron images were obtained with an FEI SEM using FEI’s Maps 2.0 software, which automatically...

Microbially induced dolomite precipitates in Eocene lacustrine siliciclastic sequences in the Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China: Evidence from petrology, geochemistry, and numerical modeling

Benben Ma, Yingchang Cao, and Kenneth A. Eriksson

AAPG Bulletin

... and evaporitic cements. Highly magnified backscatter and secondary electron techniques were used to identify carbonate and evaporitic cements. The x-ray...

Recovering original type and abundance of organic matter in spent source rocks: A review and advances in elemental proxies

Wenyao Xiao, Jian Cao, Bing Luo, Yuce Wang, Di Xiao, Chunhua Shi, and Kai Hu

AAPG Bulletin

... SUPRA 55 field emission scanning electron microscope equipped with a high-performance x-ray energy dispersive spectrometer and electron backscatter...

A natural analogue for carbon capture and storage: Petrographic and geochemical changes in sandstone after CO2 emplacement in the Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea

Lei Yu, Sanzhong Li, Keqiang Wu, Yanyan Zhao, Li Liu, Na Liu, and Kun Pang

AAPG Bulletin

...). Under electron backscatter diffraction, many pores can be observed in the siderite crystals (Figure 4F). Furthermore, certain later-formed siderite...

Comparison of silica diagenesis between the lower Cambrian and lower Silurian shale reservoirs in the middle–upper Yangtze platform (southern China)

Ping Gao, Xianming Xiao, Dongfeng Hu, Gary G. Lash, Ruobing Liu, Baoyue Zhang, and Yanming Zhao

AAPG Bulletin

... field emission, scanning electron microscope (Hitachi S-8000) equipped with an EDS. Imaging was performed in secondary electron and backscatter...

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Aragonite–Calcite Speleothems: Identifying Original and Diagenetic Features

Christine Perrin, Laurent Prestimonaco, Guilhem Servelle, Romain Tilhac, Marion Maury, Patrick Cabrol

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... hundreds of micrometers long) with different orientations between neighbors, and thus preserving intercrystalline porosity. Backscatter electronic...

The Quaternary stratigraphic architecture of a low-accommodation, passive-margin continental shelf (Santee Delta region, South Carolina, U.S.A.)

Joshua H. Long,, Till J.J. Hanebuth, Thomas Lüdmann

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., L.L., Thieler, E.R., and Sweeney, E.M., 2017, Sand ridge morphology and bedform migration patterns derived from bathymetry and backscatter on the inner...

Textual heterogeneity in massive sandstones from the Grès d'Annot and Numidian Flysch: Implications for depositional processes

Urval S. Patel,, Dorrik A.V. Stow, Andy Gardiner, Jim Buckman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of perpendicular sections, was not calculated. Fig. 4. Procedures for the image pre- and post-processing. A) Backscatter electron image in 256-level grayscale. B, C...

Understanding siderite mineralization in phyllosilicate-associated cementations in the mid-Carboniferous Anadarko Basin clastic series, U.S.A.

Owen F. Smith, Branimir Šegvić, Dustin E. Sweet

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... acquired using a four-quadrant-backscatter detector. EDS spot analyses were performed with a beam diameter greater than 100 nm and an acquisition live time...

Dolomite formation in the Miocene Kardiva platform, Maldives archipelago: a tale of closed-system and open-system dolomitization by current pumping of seawater

Juan Carlos Laya, David A. Budd, Kieron Prince,,, Carl Jacquemyn, Cameron Manche

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... dolostones as revealed by backscatter electron imaging: case study of the Cayman Formation (Miocene), Grand Cayman, British West Indies: Journal...

Experimental study of smectite authigenesis and its subsequent illitization: insights from modern estuary sediments

Anas Muhammad Salisu, Abdulwahab Muhammad Bello, Abduljamiu O. Amao, ROBERT H. Lander, KHALID Al-Ramadan

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... samples were studied accusing a Zeiss Gemini 550 scanning electron microscope (SEM) in both secondary electron (SE) and backscatter electron (BSE) modes...

Authigenic Mineralogy of Sandstones Intercalated With Organic-Rich Mudstones: Integrating Diagenesis and Burial History of the Mesaverde Group, Piceance Basin, Nw Colorado

Laura J. Crossey, Daniel Larsen

Special Publications of SEPM

... as relative trace major peak heights extent of qualita with a standard deviation of 1 6 imaging BSE also was Backscatter performed tural...