Timing of compaction and quartz cementation from integrated petrographic and burial-history analyses, lower Cretaceous Fall River Formation, Wyoming and South Dakota

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 186-196

  Dutton, Shirley P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL HISTORY; CEMENTATION; COMPACTION; DIAGENESIS; PETROGRAPHY; SANDSTONE;

USA, SOUTH DAKOTA; USA, WYOMING;

CEMENTING (SHAFTS); CEMENTS; COMPACTION; POROSITY; QUARTZ; RIVERS; TEXTURES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

INTERGRANULAR PRESSURE SOLUTIONS; MECHANICAL COMPACTION; MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES; QUARTZ CEMENTATION; REDUCING PROCESS; RESERVOIR QUALITY;

SANDSTONE;

EID: 0031010018     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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