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West Texas Geological Society
Abstract
Holocene Subtidal Dolomitization in Belize: A New Paradigm for Dolomites and Syndepositional Dolomitization in Some Permian Basin Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
Abstract
The platform carbonate environments in northern Belize are a major “dolomite factory” wherein as much as 30% dolomite is present in Holocene transgressive, shallow-marine sediments less than ~6500 years old. Dolomite is present in shallow-water mudbank and foraminiferal shoal sediments here, where it occurs continuously throughout thick sediment sections. The dolomite is mainly interparticle cement, and its stable oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions suggest precipitation from normal-salinity pore waters mediated by bacterial sulfate reduction and methanogenesis. Widespread dolomitization here may be a process-analog to the formation of some dolomite reservoirs in the Permian Basin.
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