Diagenesis of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Willow Creek sandstones, southwestern region of Alberta

A. Khidir, O. Catuneanu

CSPG Bulletin

..., mesodiagenesis during burial, and telodiagenesis after uplift. The diagenetic processes recognized during eogenesis include compaction, cementation (calcite...

Diagenesis of the Upper Jurassic Norphlet Formation, Mobile and Baldwin Counties and Offshore Alabama

R.L. Vaughan, Jr. , D. Joe Benson

GCAGS Transactions

..., quartz, k-feldspar, carbonate, and sulfate minerals occurred concurrently with mechanical compaction. With continued burial, illite and chlorite...

Hydrogeologic Regimes of Sandstone Diagenesis: Part 1. Concepts and Principles

William E. Galloway

AAPG Special Volumes

..., p. 105-119. Freed, R. L., 1981, Shale mineralogy and burial diagenesis of Frio and Vicksburg Formations in two geopressured wells, McAllen Ranch area...

The Effects of Oil Emplacement on Diagenetic Processes: Examples from the Fulmar Reservoir Sandstones, Central North Sea: Geologic Note (1)

GIRISH C. SAIGAL , KNUT BJORLYKKE , and STEVE LARTER

AAPG Bulletin

..., S. D., 1986, The development and destruction of porosity within Upper Jurassic reservoir sandstones of the Piper and Tartan fields, outer Moray Firth...

Correlation of Resource Plays and Biodiversity Patterns: Accumulation of Organic-Rich Shale Tracks Taxonomic Turnover

Jennifer D. Eoff

GCAGS Journal

... in aragonitic seas may be responsible for why other viable source rocks cannot be similarly developed as reservoirs. Burial of organic-rich shale leads...

Geochemical Analysis of Hydrocarbon Occurrences in Northern Perth Basin, Australia

B. M. Thomas

AAPG Bulletin

... depth of burial, particularly in the area of the Beagle ridge. Fig. 5. Average geothermal gradients (°C/100 m). Fig. 6. Relation between fixed carbon...

Simulation of Hydrocarbon Source Rock Maturation by Hydrous Pyrolysis

Peigui Yin, Ronald C. Surdam, Steven W. Boese, Donald B. MacGowan, Francis P. Miknis

Wyoming Geological Association

... systems, in I. Hutcheon, ed., Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course in Burial Diagenesis: Montreal, May 1989, p. 61-134. Tissot, B. P., R...

Pedogenic Mud Aggregates and Paleosol Development in Ancient Dryland River Systems: Criteria for Interpreting Alluvial Mudrock Origin and Floodplain Dynamics

Reidar Muller, Johan Petter Nystuen, V. Paul Wright

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... 2500-3000 m of burial without any significant overpressure. High rates of sedimentation resulted in only poor to moderate pedogenic overprinting, which...

Calcification of Exposed Filaments of Endolithic Algae, Micrite Envelope Formation and Sediment Production

David R. Kobluk, Michael J. Risk

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... envelope about a grain, without the destruction or alteration of the grain periphery associated with the classical mechanisms of micrite envelope...

Burial History Analysis of the Pennsylvanian Petroleum System in the Deep Paradox Basin Fold and Fault Belt, Colorado and Utah

Larry Rasmussen, Donald L. Rasmussen

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., yet complimentary purposes to the burial history modeling – 1) to accurately represent porosity destruction and the resulting increase in rock...

Paleosol Diagenesis and Its Deep-Time Paleoenvironmental Implications, Pennsylvanian–Permian Lodève Basin, France

Lauren A. Michel, Neil J. Tabor, Isabel P. Montañez

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and burial cements in nodules and veins. Cement stratigraphy reveals multiple generations, including low-Mg calcite, ferroan calcite, dolomite, barite...

Organic Geochemistry: An Important Tool for Oil and Gas Exploration

Bernard P. Tissot

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.... Kerogen can be subsequently isloated by acidic (HCI, HF) destruction of the minerals. Elementary analysis of kerogen has been used to define...

The Relation of Foraminifera to the Origin of California Petroleum

Thomas F. Stipp

AAPG Bulletin

... that a very large proportion of the tests present in the strata as fossils may have been empty of animal tissue at the time of burial. This and other related...

Clay Minerals from the Ventura Basin, California

William Quaide

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by increased temperatures and pressures due to burial. Compositions of the shales also vary with stratigraphic position, but less regularly than the sandstones...

ABSTRACT: Assessing the Relative Importance of Compaction Processes and Cementation to Reduction of Porosity in Sandstones, by Colin R. Pate; #91023 (1989)

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Assessing the Relative Importance of Compaction Processes and Cementation to Reduction of Porosity in Sandstones: DISCUSSION

Colin R. Pate

AAPG Bulletin

... in the destruction and occlusion of original porosity. Unfortunately, his graph and numerical estimates are in error due to a flaw in the equation he used...

Evidence of Fluid Flow in Microfractures in Geopressured Shales: DISCUSSION

K. L. Milliken, L. S. Land

AAPG Bulletin

.... N., 1993, Illite/smectite formation and potassium mass transfer during burial diagenesis of mudrocks: a study from the Texas Gulf Coast Paleocene...

Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality of the Oligocene Vedder Sandstone of the Rio Bravo Oil Field, California; #20319 (2015)

Stephanie Caffee, Robert A. Horton

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... Sandstone, which unconformably overlies the Vedder, is included in the main Vedder reservoir. Burial depths range from approximately 10,750 feet (3415m...

Sedimentology and Diagenesis of the Winnipegosis Formation (Middle Devonian) Tableland Area, Southeastern Saskatchewan

W. Martindale, R. W. MacDonald

CSPG Special Publications

... overgrowths, developed in the shallow burial environment. Limpid dolomite and anhydrite cements were precipitated in an intermediate to deep burial...

Cretaceous volcanic reservoirs and their exploration in the Songliao Basin, northeast China

Pujun Wang, and Shumin Chen

AAPG Bulletin

... decrease with depth of burial for both volcanic and nonvolcanic sections, but their porosity-depth trends differ. Lava and welded ignimbrite slowly lose...

Chemical Behavior of Detrital Feldspars in Mudrocks Versus Sandstones, Frio Formation (Oligocene), South Texas

Kitty L. Milliken

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... burial depths from < 1 km to 5.5 km in the Frio Formation (Oligocene) of South Texas, mudrocks lose most K-feldspar and Ca-plagioclase. Both...

Unconformities and Porosity Development in Carbonate Strata: Ideas from a Hedberg Conference

A. H. Saller , D. A. Budd , P. M. Harris

AAPG Bulletin

..., and burial. Several concepts should be recognized when evaluating porosity associated with subaerial unconformities. (1) Carbonate diagenesis during...

RELATIONSHIP OF TEMPERATURE TO RESERVOIR QUALITY FOR FELDSPATHIC  SANDSTONES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

S. A. DIXON and D. W. KIRKLAND

Fort Worth Geological Society

... equate maximum diagenetic destruction of reservoir quality with maximum depth of burial. The porosity gradients at both fields were probably established...

Frio Sandstone Diagenesis, Texas Gulf Coast: A Regional Isotopic Study: Part 1. Concepts and Principles

Lynton S. Land

AAPG Special Volumes

... Diagenesis Burial diagenesis of Frio sandstones deduced from detailed study of one small area of the northern Texas Gulf Coast (Brazoria County, Milliken...

Origin of Dolostone Reservoir Rocks, Smackover Formation (Oxfordian), Northeastern Gulf Coast, U.S.A. (1)

BRADFORD E. PRATHER

AAPG Bulletin

...) shallow-burial mixed-water, and (5) deeper burial environments, which overlapped in time and space to form a "platform-scale" dolostone body composed...