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* on Cementation and Development of Secondary Porosity in the Subsurface of Great Bahama Bank David K. Beach
* ABSTRACT Cementation trends and porosity profiles across multiple subaerial unconformities demonstrate how induration created during initial subaerial exposure played an important role in controlling fluid flow in shallow subsurface Pliocene-Pleistocene carbonate rocks on Great Bahama Bank (GBB). This control over fluid flow helped govern loci of dissolution and cementation during shallow burial of these metastable carbonates. Its role varied between meteoric vadose and phreatic, and mixing-zone diagenetic environments. Early induration also resulted in preferential preservation of subaerial unconformities in the subsurface. This study of cementation and porosity
trends also revealed gradual changes in diagenetic maturity of the rocks
and progressive evolution of the pore systems with increasing depth of
burial. Subsurface cementation and secondary porosity development occurred
primarily during emergence and subaerial exposure of the bank top. Three
diagenetic stages were recognized, and were related to changing diagenetic
environments regulated by changing Pliocene-Pleistocene sea level and slow
bank subsidence. Stage I, dominated by vadose diagenesis, commenced with
initial subaerial exposure
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