Burley S., Richard W. (Eds.) Sandstone Diagenesis: Recent and Ancient

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003, 649 pagesDiagenesis affects all sediments after their deposition and includes a fundamental suite of physical, chemical and biological processes that control the texture, mineralogy and fluid-flow properties of sedimentary rocks. Understanding the processes and products of diagenesis is thus a critical component in the analysis of the evolution of sedimentary basins, and has practical implications for subsurface porosity destruction, preservation and generation. This in turn is of great relevance to the petroleum and water industries, as well as to the location and nature of some economic mineral deposits.Combines key papers in sandstone diagenesis published in Sedimentology over the last 30 years. Records the development of diagenesis from the description of grain shapes through provenance, petrography and analytical geochemistry to predictive models of diagenetic process. Provides definitions and explanations of the terms and concepts used in diagenesis.Sandstone diagenesis: the evolution of sand to stone / R.H. Worden and S.D. Burley
Marine eogenesis
Early diagenetic iron sulphide in Recent sediments of the Wash (England) / L.G. Love
Formation of siderite-Mg-calcite-iron sulphide concretions in intertidal marsh and sandflat sediments, north Norfolk, England / k. Pye, J.A.D. Dickson, N. Schiavon, M.L. Coleman and M. Cox
Origin of authigenic carbonates in sediment from the deep Bering Sea / J.R. Hein, J.R. O'Neill and M.G. Jones
De glauconiarum origine / G.S. Odin and A. Matter
Low-Mg calcite marine cement in Cretaceous turbidites: origin, spatial distribution and relationship to seawater chemistry / J.P. Hendry, N.H. Trewin and A.E. Fallick
The concretions of the Bearreraig Sandstone Formation: geometry and geochemistry / M. Wilkinson
Non-marine eogenesis I: warm and wet environments
The anatomy of an early Dinantian terraced floodplain: palaeo-environment and early diagenesis / J.E. Andrews, M.S. Turner, G. Nabi and B. Spiro
Early diagenetic siderite as an indicator of depositional environment in the Triassic Rewan Group, southern Bowen Basin, eastern Australia / J.C. Baker, J. Kassan and P.J. Hamilton
Early diagenetic spherulitic siderites from Pennsylvanian palaeosols in the Boss Point Formation, Maritime Canada / G.H. Browne and D.M. Kingston
Early diagenesis and its relationship to depositional environment and relative sea-level fluctuations (Upper Cretaceous Marshybank Formation, Alberta and British Columbia) / J.L. Mckay, F.J. Longstaffe and A.G. Plint
Non-marine eogenesis 2: arid environments
Diagenetic alunite in clastic sequences, Kuwait, Arabian Gulf / F.I. Khalaf
Nodular silcretes of the Cypress Hills Formation (upper Eocene to middle Miocene) of southern Saskatchewan, Canada / D.A. Leckie and R.J. Cheel
Rock varnish in the Sonoran Desert: microbiologically mediated accumulation of manganiferous sediments [Abstract and SEMs only] / B. Nagy, L.A. Nagy, M.J. Rigali, W.D. Jones, D.H. Krinsley and N.A. Sinclair
Models of rock varnish formation constrained by high resolution transmission electron microscopy [Abstract only] / D. Krinsley
Calcretes related to phreatophytic vegetation from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone of South West England / K. Purvis and V.P. Wright
Zeolitic diagenesis of late Quaternary fluviolacustrine sediments and associated calcrete formation in the Lake Bogoria Basin, Kenya Rift Valley [Abstract only] / R.W. Renaut
Groundwater dolocretes from the Upper Triassic of the Paris Basin, France: a case study of an arid, continental diagenetic facies / C. Spotl and V.P. Wright
Quartz-related mesogenesis
Formation of quartz overgrowths in the Penrith sandstone (Lower Permian) of northwest England as revealed by scanning electron microscopy / B. Waugh
A scale of dissolution for quartz and its implications for diagenetic processes in sandstones / A.R. Hurst
Thin section and S.E.M. textural criteria for the recognition of cement-dissolution porosity in sandstones / S.D. Burley and J.D. Kantorowicz
A numerical model for porosity modification at a sandstone-mudstone boundary by quartz pressure dissolution and diffusive mass transfer / A.M. Mullis
Origin of quartz cements in some sandstones from the Jurassic of the Inner Moray Firth (UK) / G. Block Vagle, A. Hurst and H. Dypvik
Carbonate-cement-dominated mesogenesis
Geochemistry of carbonate cements in the Sag River and Shublik Formations (Triassic/Jurassic), North Slope, Alaska: implications for the geochemical evolution of formation waters / P.S. Mozley and K. Hoernle
Burial dolomitization and porosity development in a mixed carbonate-clastic Basin, northern England R.L. Gawthorpe
Clay and aluminosilicate mineral-related mesogenesis
Diagenetic origin of graywacke matrix minerals / J.T. Whetten and J.W. Hawkins Jr
Diagenetic origin of graywacke matrix minerals: a discussion / J.P.B. Lovell
Diagenetic origin of graywacke matrix minerals: a reply / J.T. Whetten and J. W. Hawkins Jr
Diagenesis of sandstones in the back-arc basins of the western Pacific Ocean / Y.I. Lee and G.DeV. Klein
Diagenetic K-feldspar pseudomorphs in the Triassic Buntsandstein sandstones of the Iberian Range, Spain / S. Morad, R. Marfil and J.A de la Pena
Zeolites in sedimentary rocks, with reference to the depositional environments and zonal distribution [Abstract only] / A. Iijima and M. Utada
Diagenesis of the Newark Rift Basin, Eastern North America [Abstract only] / M. El Tabakh and B.C. Schreiber
The origin of faceted garnets in sandstones: dissolution or overgrowth? / A.C. Morton, G. Borg, P.L. Hansley, P.D.W. Haughton, D.H. Krinsley and P. Trusty
Effect of oil on sandstone mesogenesis
Comparison of post-sedimentary alterations of oil-, gas- and water-bearing rocks / R.M. Yurkova
Plagioclase dissolution related to biodegradation of oil in Brent Group sandstones (Middle Jurassic) of Gullfaks Field, northern North Sea / S.N. Ehrenberg and K.G. Jakobsen
Integrated time, temperature and water-composition analysis of sandstone mesogenesis
Diagenesis and reservoir quality of the Aldebaran Sandstone, Denison Trough, east-central Queensland, Australia / J.C. Baker
Diagenesis and formation water chemistry of Triassic reservoir sandstones from southern Tunisia / S. Morad, H.N. Ben Ismail, L.F. De Ros, I.S. Al-Aasm and N.-E. Serrhini
The petrology and diagenesis of Middle Jurassic clastic sediments, Ravenscar Group, Yorkshire / J.D. Kantorowicz
Telogenesis (uplift-related diagenesis)
The role of the late Cimmerian unconformity for the distribution of kaolinite in the Gullfaks Field, northern North Sea / P.A. Bjorkum, R. Mjos, O. Walderhaug and A. Hurst