Anatomy of the stratigraphical boundary between the Arnager Greensand and Arnager Limestone (Upper Cretaceous) on Bornholm,Denmark

The complex boundary between the Arnager Greensand Formation and the Arnager Limestone Formation on the island of Bornholm (Denmark) has been studied for almost a century. Despite this effort, the hiatus represented by the boundary remains poorly constrained. Using a considerable number of processed samples and thin sections the uppermost Arnager Greensand Formation is confirmed as Thalmanninella reicheli Zone age (early Middle Cenomanian) and the overlying Arnager Limestone Formation is probably early Coniacian in age. No evidence of macrofossil and microfossil assemblages indicative of the late Cenomanian or the Turonian have been recorded and there is no palaeontological or sedimentological evidence of the global late Cenomanian (Bonarelli or OAE 2) anoxic event. The significant mid-Cenomanian to early Coniacian hiatus reflects a period of sediment starvation along the line of the Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone in the vicinity of Bornholm.     

Image analysis and estimation of porosity and permeability of Arnager Greensand,Upper Cretaceous,Denmark

Arnager Greensand consists of unconsolidated, poorly sorted fine-grained, glauconitic quartz sand, often silty or clayey, with a few horizons of cemented coarse-grained sand. Samples from the upper part of the Arnager Greensand were used for this study to estimate permeability from microscopic images. Backscattered Scanning Electron Microscope images from polished thin-sections were acquired for image analysis with the software PIPPIN®. Differences in grey levels owing to density differences allowed us to estimate porosity, clay and particle content. The images were simplified into two phases, pores and particles, and the specific surface of the solid phase was calculated. We used the Kozeny Equation to calculate the permeability. The petrophysical properties, porosity and permeability obtained from image analysis were compared to results using laboratory methods. The 150x magnification of the image can not resolve the microporosity within the clay fraction, so we suggest that the imaged porosity at 150x magnification is close to the effective porosity for permeability assessment. The Heporosity, however, represents the total porosity of the Arnager Greensand. For permeability estimation, a local permeability was calculated for each image. For calculation of the plug scale permeability, we compare three different averaging methods: arithmetic, harmonic, and geometric mean. In every case the calculated permeability overestimates the measured permeability. Only the lowest calculated local permeabilities corresponds to the measured permeabilities, suggesting that the overall permeability for these samples is governed by the least permeable parts.     

贵州紫云上石炭统叶状藻礁灰岩的成岩作用

贵州紫云县猴场镇扁平村的上石炭统中的叶状藻礁及其周边灰岩中发育强烈的成岩作用和胶结物,这些胶结物在猴场研究区内是显著的和有代表性的。通过观察、分析野外露头、光片、薄片、薄片的阴极发光和染色,来研究礁体岩石的成岩作用,确定了成岩作用序列、成岩环境、成岩阶段。成岩作用类型主要有泥晶化、溶蚀、胶结、新生变形、机械压实、剪切或高温重结晶、构造破裂作用等。早成岩阶段的成岩作用有轻微压实、溶蚀作用和在礁灰岩成岩过程中发挥了至关重要的作用的胶结作用。胶结作用提供了大量的微亮晶、斑块状亮晶方解石、放射纤维扇状胶结物,构成了岩石骨架从而决定岩石的最终形态。表生成岩阶段,强烈的溶蚀作用形成大的晶洞孔隙或通道孔隙,     

The crystal chemistry of silica-rich,alkali-deficient nepheline

Coarse crystals of an extremely silica-rich, potassium-deficient nepheline have been synthesized hydrothermally with albite. Electron microprobe analysis yielded the formula: □_1.76K_o.24Na_6.00Al_6.24-Si_9.76O₃₂. A crystal structure analysis of this nepheline has revealed (1) a disordered Si-Al distribution, (2) full occupancy of the smaller cavity site by sodium atoms, and (3) the larger cavity is vacant except for the minor potassium content, with the size of this cavity being the same as when largely occupied with potassium atoms. In addition, the crystal structure of another nepheline prepared by alkali exchange in molten NaCl showed that when Na atoms replace the K atoms of the large cavity: (1) this cavity does not collapse around the smaller atoms, and therefore, (2) the sodium atoms occupy an offcenter position displaced by about 0.3 Å from the cavity center in order to form a rather one-sided bonding configuration with some of the cavity wall oxygen atoms. These structures further support the strong site preference indicated earlier by Buerger and coworkers and restated by Barth: that for the large cavity K > □ ? Na and for the small cavity site Na>Ca(?)?K, □. Perfect compliance with this site preference scheme would tend to restrict nephelines to the Barth compositional join: □₂Na₆Al₆Si₁₀O₃₂-K₂Na₆Al₈Si₈O₃₂, neglecting the minor Ca component usually present. Thirteen new electron microprobe analyses of nephelines from a variety of occurrences and sixteen additional microprobe analyses from the literature which comply with nepheline-structure allowed stoichiometry, are plotted showing that (1) natural nephelines closely conform to this site preference scheme with less than 10% of the large cavity sites containing sodium atoms, that is, the analyses cluster near the Barth join, and (2) examples of natural nephelines can be found at nearly all intermediate compositions along this join.     

Ulster White Limestone Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Northern Ireland: effects of basalt loading on chalk diagenesis

The Ulster White Limestone Formation is an unusual chalk because it underwent a period of post-depositional emergence and erosion, followed by burial under 1·5–2·0 km of Tertiary basalts. A high degree of pressure solution and cementation produced a well-lithified limestone with low porosities (2·3–10·4%). The Ulster White Limestone shows no evidence of thermally induced textural alteration, except for thin (<0·5 m) pseudospar contact recrystallization zones adjoining basalt dykes. Whole-rock δ¹⁸O values of samples not associated with basalt dykes range from - 3·26%o to - 6·50%o (PDB). The δ¹⁸O values of macropore cements range from - 4·96%o to - 11·52%o (mean=-8·27%o). Modelling of the diagenesis of the Ulster White Limestone using trace element concentrations and carbon, oxygen and strontium isotopic ratios of whole rock and cement samples suggests a low water-rock ratio and either marine or mixed marine-meteoric pore water environment during the main episode of recrystallization. The maximum possible burial temperature was modelled to be ? 105°C. The diagenetic history of the Ulster White Limestone is similar to that of North Sea chalks that are at comparable burial depths as the Ulster White Limestone after basalt deposition. The geochemical data show no indication of hydrothermal alteration associated with the overlying basalts. The degree of alteration of fine-grained limestones composed predominantly of low-magnesium calcite, such as the Cretaceous/Tertiary chalks, appears to be controlled largely by the burial (effective stress) history of the limestone.     

Diagenesis of Barremian-Aptian platform carbonates (the Urgonian Limestone Formation of SE France): near-surface and shallow-burial diagenesis

The diagenesis of carbonate platform sediments is controlled by the original facies and mineralogy, climate, sea-level changes and burial history; these controls are clearly seen in the diagenesis of the Urgonian platform carbonates of SE France. Early diagenesis in the Urgonian platform included the precipitation of marine cements, dissolution of rudist shells and minor karstification. Diagenetic features produced during this phase were controlled by several falls in relative sea-level during the Barremian to mid-Aptian punctuating platform sedimentation, the original mineralogy of the sediment and the prevailing semi-arid/arid climate in the region at this time. Following a relative sea-level rise and further sedimentation, progressive burial of the platform led to minor compaction, followed by precipitation of coarse, equant, zoned to non-luminescent, calcite cement. This cement was cut by later stylolites, suggesting a relatively shallow-burial origin. Stable isotope (mean values - 7.94%δ¹⁸O and 0.36%δ¹³C) and trace element (mean values of Fe 334 ppm, Mn 92 ppm and Sr 213 ppm) data suggest that these cements precipitated from meteoric fluids at temperatures slightly elevated relative to depositional temperatures. A variable thickness of replacive dolomite which occurs preferentially within the shelf-margin facies of the lower part of the Urgonian post-dates mechanical fracturing and chemical compaction, but pre-dates the main phase of stylolitization. It is probable that the dolomitizing fluid was sourced by the early compaction-driven release of connate fluids held within the underlying muddy units. The burial history of these rocks suggests that calcite cementation and dolomitization took place at relatively shallow burial depths (1–1.5 km). The overall diagenetic history of the Urgonian Limestone Formation is a reflection of the pre-conditioning of the platform limestones by climate, sea level, tectonics and the shallow burial depths experienced by the platform during the later Mesozoic.     

碳酸盐岩成岩作用及其对储层控制的定量评价 --以和田河气田石炭系生物屑灰岩段为例

成岩作用对碳酸盐岩储层的影响很大.石炭系生物屑灰岩段是和田河气田的主要产层,控制其储层物性的成岩作用主要有胶结作用、压实-压溶作用、白云石化作用、溶蚀(岩溶)作用和破裂作用.胶结作用和压实作用是主要的孔隙破坏者,它们破坏了几乎所有的原生孔隙和部分次生溶孔;压溶作用产生的缝合线大部分已成为油气的运移通道和储集空间;白云石化作用发生于准同生期,符合渗透回流白云石化机理,产生的大量晶间孔占储层总孔隙度的30%左右,且白云石含量与孔隙度呈正相关关系;埋藏岩溶作用主要是由硫酸溶蚀作用形成,产生的溶蚀孔隙是该储层的主要储集空间,占储层总孔隙度的37.5%以上;破裂作用产生的构造裂缝是储层渗透率的主要贡献者,它为储层提供99.6%以上的渗透率和2%~6%的总孔隙度,破裂作用是致密碳酸盐岩能够成为油气储层的必要条件.岩溶作用和白云石化作用都发育的区域应是碳酸盐岩的主要勘探目标.     

Radiolaria,planktonic foraminifera,and stratigraphy of Turonian-lower Coniacian in the Biyuk-Karasu section,Crimea

The first data on the distribution of Radiolaria and planktonic Foraminifera in the section at Biyuk-Karasu River in central part of the Crimean Mountains, are presented. Based on the study of radiolarian findings, the upper Cretaceous deposits of Biyuk-Karasu section are subdivided into the following biostratigraphic units: Alievium superbum-Phaseliforma turovi (middle Turonian), Dactylodiscus longispinus-Patulibracchium (?) quadroastrum (upper Turonian), and Orbiculiforma quadrata-Patellula sp. B (Turonian-Coniacian boundary deposits). The stratigraphic interval of Alievium superbum-Phaseliforma turovi has been previously characterized by the complex of Alievium superbum-Phaseliforma sp. A (middle Turonian, Mt. Chuku section, SW of the Crimean Mountains, and middle Turonian, Mt. Ak, central part of the Crimean Mountains). Based on the study of Foraminifera findings, the following biostratigraphic subdivisions were identified: Whiteinella paradubia (lower-lower part of the middle Turonian), Marginotruncana pseudolinneiana (uppermost middle Turonian), and Marginotruncana coronata (upper Turonian). The complex of beds with Marginotruncana pseudolinneiana and Marginotruncana coronata are comparable to the deposits of zones of same name in the Crimean-Caucasian region.     

Diagenesis of the Aphebian Mistassini regolith,Quebec, Canada

A well-developed regolith is preserved beneath early Proterozoic (Aphebian) rocks of the Otish and Mistassini Groups in Central Quebec, Canada. The regolith is covered by fluviatile clastic rocks (Otish Group) in the north, and by a thick sequence of stromatolitic and sandy dolomite (Mistassini Group) in the south.Where preserved beneath clastic rocks, the regolith exhibits the structures and textures of its crystalline parent rocks (tonalite, gneiss and amphibolite), despite the alteration of feldspars to clay minerals and the partial oxidation of biotite. A later event recrystallized the clay minerals to muscovite, while conserving the original outline of the feldspars. Beneath the dolomite, the regolith was largely replaced by dolomite, but retains many original textures. Dolomite replaced first the clay minerals, then quartz and unaltered feldspars and finally biotite. Repeated crustifications of dolomite with intervals of chert and minor anthraxolite surround unaltered blocks of crystalline rock within the regolith profile and similar complex veins fill many master joints. These veins are identical in composition to vug fillings throughout the overlying carbonate formations. Clasts of partly dolomitized regolith included in non-dolomitic sands filling channels and scours dug deep into the profile, suggest that dolomitization commenced very early, possibly related to a sabkha environment developed during the transgression.     

成岩作用对豫西北马家沟组三段遗迹化石充填物孔隙发育的影响

豫西北奥陶系马家沟组三段碳酸盐岩的野外露头观察和室内测试分析结果表明,马家沟组三段的岩性以泥晶灰岩为主,岩石中具有典型的遗迹化石充填特征。遗迹化石充填物经历了白云石化、胶结、溶蚀、压实/压溶、去白云石化等成岩作用,其中溶蚀作用对充填物孔隙发育具有建设性,压实作用和去白云石化作用具有破坏性,而白云石化作用、胶结作用和压溶作用则具有建设性和破坏性的双重影响。潜穴充填物的孔隙类型主要以白云石晶间孔、晶间次生溶孔和晶内次生溶孔为主。随着成岩环境的变化,孔隙度经历了降低—升高—降低—升高的反复演化过程。早成岩阶段的白云石化作用对于潜穴充填物孔隙的发育贡献最大,此后充填物孔隙度的提升主要依赖于表生环境下大气淡水的淋滤溶蚀,而遗迹化石充填物经成岩改造后对提高宿主岩层的储层物性具有促进作用。     

Stratal,sedimentary and faunal relationships in the Coniacian 3rd-order sequence of the Iberian Basin,Spain

The Coniacian 3rd-order sequence in the Iberian Basin is represented by a carbonate ramp-like open platform. The biofacies is mainly dominated by nekto-benthic (such as ammonites) and benthic organisms (such as bivalves, mainly rudists) with scarce solitary corals (hermatypics are absent), showing major differences among the Transgressive System Tract (TST) and Highstand Normal Regression (HNR). During the TST, platform environments were dominated by Pycnodonte, other oysters and molluscs (with only subordinate rudists) and ammonites, which were represented by ornamented platycones (Tissotioides and Prionocycloceras), and by smooth oxycones (Tissotia and Hemitissotia). During the HNR, shallow water depositional areas were occupied by rudist-dominated associations. Storm- and wind-induced currents and waves acting on these associations produced large amounts of loose bioclastic debris that covered outer platform areas. This facies belt graded landwards into protected, lower-energy settings (inner platform, lagoon and littoral environments). Rudist biostromes were preserved in seaward areas of these protected shallow environments of overall moderate to low hydrodynamic gradient, which was punctuated by storms. In this environment and landwards, large areas of marly substrate favoured the presence of gastropods, other bivalves, echinoderms, benthic foraminifera and solitary corals. Because of the input of siliciclastics and, probably, the lack of nutrients in suspension, the establishment of rudist communities was difficult in more landward areas of the lagoon and in tidal environments. This heterozoan carbonate factory was thus controlled by warm-water conditions and high energy levels, which were responsible for high-nutrient contents in suspension.     

Albian to Coniacian zonation of the Western Coastal Plain of Israel

A planktonic biozonation of the Albian to Coniacian stages for the Western Coastal Plain of Israel, is proposed. Ten zones are described, based on the succession of the following genera: Ticinella, Thamanninella, Rotalipora and Marginotruncana. Chronostratigraphic position of the zones and comparison with both, regional and worldwide biozonation, are discussed.     

Submarine silica-rich hydrothermal activity during the earliest Cambrian in the Tarim Basin,Northwest China

Siliceous rocks were widely deposited in many continents during the Ediacaran–Cambrian (E–C) transition. Based on detailed field investigations in the Aksu area of the Tarim Basin in Northwest China, this study presents evidence of a submarine silica-rich hydrothermal system preserved in the E–C boundary successions. This system consists of a lower stockwork silica-dominant vein swarm zone in the karstified dolostone of the uppermost Ediacaran Qigebulake Formation, which terminates directly under the overlying bedded chert and black shale succession of the lowermost Cambrian Yurtus Formation. The stockwork vein swarms were filled dominantly by a wide spectrum of silica precipitates (amorphous silica, chalcedony, spherulite, fine to coarse quartz) with subordinate pyrite, Fe-(oxyhydr)oxide, and barite. The host dolostones that were dissected by the vein swarms also suffered extensive silicification and recrystallization. The vertical stacking relationship of silica-dominant vein swarms and overlying bedded chert suggests they were formed by an identical low-temperature, silica-rich diffusive submarine hydrothermal system in the earliest Cambrian. This suggestion is further supported by fluid inclusion microthermometry (T_h 40–200°C) of the quartz-barite vein fills. In this case, silica-rich hydrothermal fluids were channelled and precipitated partially along the stockwork veins in the antecedent karstified dolostone and vented mostly into seawater, promoting widespread deposition of bedded chert on the seafloor of Tarim Basin in the earliest Cambrian. This study provides a useful clue and analogue to understand the widespread silica deposition and coeval vast oceanic and geochemical changes during the E–C transition in the Tarim Basin and elsewhere.     

Thermal diffusivity of upper chalk from Hampshire,England

The thermal diffusivity of Upper Chalk from the Micraster coranguinum zone had been calculated from 8 year temperature data obtained from depths between 30 cm and 21.34 m at Harestock, near Winchester, Hampshire.Amplitudes and phase lags were calculated from these data using Fourier analysis.Values of thermal diffusivity were calculated from the variation of amplitude with depth and phase lag with depth for the first harmonic using the Fourier heat flow equation.Agreement between the two methods was very good between 30 cm and 914 cm depth. An overall mean value is 0.004489 ± 0.00052cm^?2s^?1.Using appropriate values of porosity (47%) and density the mean thermal conductivity is 1.519W m^?1°C^?1± 0.326, for the water saturated state.     

Carbonate chemistry of groundwater from chalk,Givendale, East Yorkshire

Precipitation, soil and spring waters from an outlier of Chalk were analysed over a one year period for field pH, and contents of Ca⁺², Mg⁺², HCO₃^? and other dissolved solids. Measured soil log PCO₂ (atm) varied between a minimum of ?2.60 and maximum of ?1.46, and could be predicted from measurements of soil temperature. Soil waters evolved under open system conditions with respect to soil CO₂, and were undersaturated with calcite during the winter recharge period.The chemistry of the springs is related to their topographic position. Group 1 springs, located below a feather edge of chalk, had both their minimum and maximum PCO₂s predicted by the soil CO₂ data, suggesting open system CO₂ evolution. Group 2 springs, located along the scarp slope had minimum PCO₂s predicted by the soil data, but maximum PCO₂s which could only be explained by a closed system evolution from the maximum soil CO₂ observed. Group 1 springs were close to calcite saturation, whereas Group 2 springs were significantly undersaturated with calcite. The two groups could be identified by linear discriminant analysis of measured Ca²⁺, pH and HCO₃^? concentrations.     

Diagenesis of the Newark Rift Basin, Eastern North America

Late Triassic nonmarine strata in the Newark Rift Basin, eastern North America, accumulated in a subsiding half-graben prior to opening of the Atlantic Ocean. These strata consist, in ascending order, of the Stockton, Lockatong, and Passaic formations. Although different in specific lithology, these formations all exhibit diagenetic fabrics dominated by authigenic albite and analcime. These same minerals have a similar presence in Late Triassic (Newark Supergroup) strata of other rift-related basins to the north, suggesting that related authigenesis is not simply a result of local diagenetic factors. The basal deposit, the Stockton Formation, is composed of fluvial sandstones and overbank mudstones, with nodular pedogenic calcite (calcrete). During burial, original micrite was first recrystallized into sparry calcite and then later subjected to partial replacement by authigenic albite, which is also present as overgrowths and void fillings in overbank mudstones. The Lockatong Formation contains organic-rich shales, carbonates, and evaporative mudstones deposited under cyclic conditions in laterally extensive lacustrine environments. Analcime comprises up to 40% of these strata by volume, occurring within the matrix, as a replacement of original carbonates and evaporites, and as fillings in macrovoids. The overlying Passaic Formation is made up of massive red mudstones, evaporites, and local calcareous lacustrine sequences. Evaporites are replaced by coarse-grained anhydrite together with some authigenic albite. A central question concerns the source for the Na, Si, and Al required for albite and analcime authigenesis. It is suggested that, in addition to alteration of primary siliciclastic material, sodium in particular was supplied in two ways: (1) from high concentrations in original evaporative brines and groundwaters (Lockatong and Passaic formations); and (2) from dissolution of associated sodium-bearing evaporites (Lockatong and Passaic Formation) during diagenesis. It is proposed here that basin-sourced, Na-enriched brines circulated through the section over time. As albite is more stable at elevated temperatures relative to analcime, it developed in the lowermost strata of the basin (Stockton Formation). Analcime is more prevalent in the overlying Lockatong Formation.     

沉积岩中稳定重砂矿物的成岩蚀变特征及其指示意义

结合矿物物理化学特征解释了沉积岩中常见的稳定重砂矿物石榴石、锆石、金红石、磷灰石、电气石和榍石的碎屑形态和稳定性;借助扫描电镜下呈现出来的形貌特征,如溶蚀、裂开、圆化程度等,分析了控制稳定重砂矿物蚀变作用的物理化学因素;认为稳定重砂矿物之间的相对稳定性受沉积环境和成岩条件的控制.在同生和成岩过程中,有机酸参与的流体可以改变部分稳定重砂矿物(如磷灰石、石榴石、电气石)的稳定性,并导致其分解,因此稳定重砂矿物的蚀变特征一方面可以辅助解释重砂矿物组合的空间变化,另一方面还可以揭示沉积过程中的气候条件、植被发育程度,从而指示沉积相,并约束成岩过程中流体的化学性质;此外,导致稳定重砂矿物溶蚀的流体对于其他造岩矿物的影响以及对次生孔隙的贡献程度值得进一步研究.