Experimental development of chlorite: insights from a kaolinite precursor

Abdulwahab Muhammad Bello, Anas Muhammad Salisu, Abduljamiu Olalekan Amao, Mustapha Umar, Khalid Al-Ramadan

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in siliciclastic reservoir sandstones: electron microprobe, SEM and XRD data, and implications for their Origin: Clay Minerals, v. 29, p. 665–679. Hillier...

Failure to launch: Fate of the Second White Specks as a resource play was preordained by its Late Cretaceous depositional setting

Bruce S. Hart, Juergen Schieber, Michael H. Hofmann, and A. Guy Plint

AAPG Bulletin

..., Furmann et al., 2014, 2015; Lamb, 2015; Aviles et al., 2019) and attempts to use methods such as horizontal drilling and multistage completions to produce...

Production-Induced Diagenesis During Thermal Heavy Oil Recovery: Grain Size as a Predictor of Reservoir Alteration

Mary L. Barrett, Richard W. Mathias

Special Publications of SEPM

... method is preferable to other XRD methods to detect semi quantify the amorphous material common in Cal and mineral was all minerals found in the ifornia...

Pseudospherulitic Fibrous Calcite in Paleo-Groundwater, Unconformity-Related Diagenetic Carbonates (Paleocene of the Ager Basin and Miocene of the Madrid Basin, Spain)

Carlos Rossi , Juan C. Canaveras

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... etched surfaces of selected PFC samples were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to determine mineral...

Hyperspectral Imaging of the Leonardian Third Bone Spring Shale, Whiting Collier 1201 Core, Eastern Delaware Basin: Application and Results; #51597 (2019)

Tobi Kosanke, Robert G. Loucks, Toti Larson, James Greene, Paul Linton

Search and Discovery.com

... description, thin-section, XRF, XRD, and TOC data to determine the mineralogy of different facies and to facilitate property ‘up-scaling’ from SEM and thin...

Origin of Quartz Cement in the Tirrawarra Sandstone, Southern Cooper Basin, South Australia

Mohammad R. Rezaee, Peter R. Tingate

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... End_Page 170------------------------ Quartz cement develops preferentially along the c-axis direction, and in CL and SEM it can be seen that it often...

Characterization of Ambient Dust from a Quarry District in Malaysia

Yap Siaw Yang, Ng Seik Weng

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...). The dust particles are composed often minerals. The dust-fall particles have been characterized by SEM-EDX analyses, which also calculate silicate...

Diagenesis and reservoir quality of lacustrine deep-water gravity-flow sandstones in the Eocene Shahejie Formation in the Dongying sag, Jiyang depression, eastern China

Tian Yang, Yingchang Cao, Henrik Friis, Keyu Liu, Yanzhong Wang, Lingli Zhou, Guanghui Yuan, Kelai Xi, and Shaomin Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... a JSM-5500 LV SEM equipped with Quantax 400 energy-dispersive spectroscopy x-ray microanalyzer. After CL analyses, 12 carbon-coated polished thin...

The Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary Unit, Western Interior of North America—A Record of Large Meteorite Impact and Regional Diagenesis

Richard M. Pollastro, Bruce F. Bohor

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and Comets on the Earth: Geological Society of America Special Paper 190, p. 223–234. Pillmore, C.L....

The Impact of Volcanism on Reservoir Quality, Scotian Basin; #10680 (2014)

Georgia Pe-Piper, David J.W. Piper

Search and Discovery.com

... have been studied from numerous wells in the Scotian Basin by petrographic microscope, hot-cathode cathodoluminescence (CL), SEM and electron...

Micropores in Carbonate Mud: Early Development and Petrophysics

F. Jerry Lucia, Robert G. Loucks

GCAGS Journal

... that occurred on the shelf during the Pliocene (Kenter et al., 2001). DATA AND METHODS Seventeen 1-in (2.54-cm) core plugs were collected from...

Contact Diagenesis: The Effect of an Intrusion on Reservoir Quality in the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, Northern Ireland

Jennifer M. Mckinley , Richard H. Worden , Alastair H. Ruffell

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to determine mineral identification by mineral morphology. X-ray analysis, using an energy dispersive analyzer (EDS) attached to the SEM, permitted...

Estimation of Mineralogy and Lithology from Geochemical Log Measurements (1)

RICHARD F. WENDLANDT and KAMAL BHUYAN

AAPG Bulletin

..., Al, Si, Ca, Fe, S, Gd, Ti, Cl, and H) were obtained using logging tools that measure neutron capture, neutron activation, and natural gamma-ray...

Cool Shale in the Udang Formation, South Belut Sub-Basin

Budi R. Permana, Miftahul Firdaus, Retno Wijayanti, Lukman Hidayat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... by constituent minerals with low radioactivity such as kaolinite or chlorite. Investigations including petrographic analysis, XRD, and SEM of side wall cores...

Strategies for Identifying Organic Matter Types in SEM, #70233 (2017).

Wayne K. Camp

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... and kerogen types as described by optical petrographic or geochemical methods. Lack of consistent and standardized descriptions of organic matter in SEM has...

The Effect of Provenance on Clay Mineral Diagenesis in Gulf of Mexico Shales

Matthew W. Totten Sr., Joniell Borges, Iris M. Totten

GCAGS Transactions

... Louisiana. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank Al Falster of the University of New Orleans for all of his assistance in SEM, XRD, and DCP...

Chapter 3: Compactional and Mass-Balance Constraints Inferred from the Volume of Quartz Cementation in Mudrocks

Kitty L. Milliken

AAPG Special Volumes

...–1797. Bernet, M., and K. Bassett, 2005, Provenance analysis by single-quartz-grain SEM-CL/optical microscopy: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75...

Root Calcretes and Uranium-Bearing Silcretes at Sedimentary Discontinuities In the Miocene of the Madrid Basin (Toledo, Spain)

M. Ángeles Bustillo, Chloé Plet, Ana M. Alonso-Zarza

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-INCA X-ray energy-dispersive system (EDS). Cathode-luminescence SEM (CL-SEM) images and spectra were obtained using a MONOCL3 Gatan apparatus...

K-Ar Dating, Petrographic and Thermal Modelling Constraints on Illite Origin in the Cooper Basin, South Australia

H. Zwingmann, P. R. Tingate, N. M. Lemon, P. J. Hamilton

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... are presumably derived from the underlying Cambrian Mooracoochie Volcanics (Gravestock & Gatehouse 1995). ANALYTICAL METHODS Samples consisting...

Using Core Data, Digital Rocks, and Source Rock Kinetics to Reduce Hydrocarbon Storage Uncertainty in Unconventional Reservoirs: Application to South Texas Organic Rich Mudstones

Jon Capsan, Jorge Sanchez-Ramirez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... concepts and to demonstrate the value of integration for reducing the uncertainty in hydrocarbon storage estimation. Methods The following sections...

Quantifying Nanoporosity: Insights Revealed by Parallel and Multiscale Analyses

Amanda C. Reynolds, Ron J.M. Bonnie, Shaina Kelly, Robert Krumm, James Howard

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... spectroscopy (EDS) maps on the 100 nm/pixel SEM images; the comparison between XRD and EDSderived mineralogy allowed for a check on mosaic...

Soil Chemistry Analysis of Brine contaminated soils in West Texas, USA

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ABSTRACT: Feldspar Dissolution as a Source of Cations for Carbonate Growth in a Carbon Sequestration Context: EQ3/6 Modeling and Laboratory Experiments; #90013 (2003)

Lawrence H. Boram, Steven R. Higgins, Kevin G. Knauss, Carrick M. Eggleston

Search and Discovery.com

... (with and without 0.01 m starting alkalinity, respectively). The reacted plagioclase grains were analyzed by petrography, XRD, SEM/EDS, CO2 analysis, and AFM...

Recognition criteria for distinguishing between hemipelagic and pelagic mudrocks in the characterization of deep-water reservoir heterogeneity

Jesus Ochoa, Jeannette Wolak, Michael H. Gardner

AAPG Bulletin

... microscopy (SEM)field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM)x-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis to capture the differences between mudrock end...

Semi-Quantitative SEM Analysis of the Vaca Muerta Formation and Its Impact on Reservoir Characterization, Neuquen Basin, Argentina

Federico Gonzalez Tomassini, Langhorne (Taury) Smith, Maria Jimena Rodriguez, Diego Kietzmann, Ignacio Jausoro, Maria Alejandra Floridia, Mariano Cipollone, Alberto Caneiro, Bernarda Epele, Nicolás Santillán, Federico Medina, Guillermina Sagasti

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... al.) Methods More than 150 core samples from two wells were studied in thin sections and SEM images from the organic-rich Vaca Muerta Formation...