Fluid flow and diagenesis in carbonate dominated Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts: Petrographic inferences from field studies of late-diagenetic fabrics from Albania, Belgium, Canada, Mexico and Pakistan

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 78-79, Issue , 2003, Pages 481-485

  Swennen, R ^a   Ferket, H ^a   Benchilla, L ^a,b   Roure, F ^b   Ellam, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channelised fluid flow; Cooling of formation waters; Layer parallel shortening; Rock buffering

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; KINEMATICS; PETROGRAPHY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS;

CHANNELISED FLUID FLOW; DIAGENETIC FABRICS; DOLOMITES; FORMATION WATERS; LAYER PARALLEL SHORTENING; ROCK BUFFERING;

EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY;

CARBONATE; COOLING; DIAGENESIS; DOLOMITE; DOLOMITIZATION; FLUID FLOW; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HOST ROCK; PETROGRAPHY; RECRYSTALLIZATION;

ALBANIA; ASIA; BELGIUM; BENELUX; CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS;

EID: 20744445688     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-6742(03)00064-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. Al-Aasm, IS., Packard, J.J., 2000. Stabilization of early-formed dolomite: a tale of divergence from two Mississippian dolomites. Sediment. Geol. 131, 97-108.
2. Bathurst, R.C.G., 1995. Burial diagenesis of limestones under simple overburden - stylolites, cementation and feedback. Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr. 166, 181-192.
3. Cioppa, M.T., Al-Aasm, I.S., Symons, D.T.A., Lewchuk, M.T., Gillen, K.P., 2000. Correlating paleomagnetic, geochemical and petrographic evidence to date diagenetic and fluid flow events in the Mississippian Turner valley Formation, Moosc Field, Alberta, Canada. Sediment. Geol. 131, 109-129.
4. Ferket, H., Ortuno, S., Roure, F., Swennen, R., 2003. Lithology control on matrix porosity in shallow marine reservoir limestones: study of the Peñuela reservoir outcrop analogue (E. Mexico). In: Bartolini, C. (Ed.), The Circum-Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region: Plate Tectonics, Basin Formation and Hydrocarbon Habitats. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. In press.
5. Giles, M.R., 1997. Diagenesis: A quantitative Perspective. Kluwer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. 526 pp.
6. Kenis, I., Muchez, Ph., Sintubin, M., Mansy, J.L., Lacquement, F., 2000. The use of a combined structural, stable isotope and fluid inclusion study to constrain the kinematic history at the northern Variscan front zone (Bettrechies, northern France). J. Struct. Geol. 22, 589-602.
7. Lünenschloss, B., Bayer, U., Muchez, Ph., 1997. Coalification anomalies induced by fluid flow at the Variscan thrust front: a numerical model of the palaeotemperature field. Geol. Mijnb. 76, 271-275.
8. Machel, H.G., Cavell, P.A., 1999. Low-flux, tectonically-induced squeegee fluid flow ("hot flash") into the Rocky Mountain Foreland Basin. Bull. Can. Pet. Geol. 47, 510-533.
9. Muchez, Ph., Sintubin, M., Swennen, R., 2000. Origin and migration pattern of palaeofluids during orogeny: discussion on the Variscides of Belgium and northern France. J. Geochem. Explor. 9-70, 47-51.
10. Nielsen, P., Swennen, R., Muchez, Ph., Keppens, E., 1998. Origin of zebra dolomites south of the Brabant-Wales massif, Belgium. Sedimentology 45, 666-679.
11. Nielsen, P., Swennen, R., Groessens, E., Muchez, P., Fallick, A.E., Keppens, E., Weis, D., 2003. Columnar calcites at the boundary between Upper Tournaisian dolomites and limestones (Belgium): multiple origins for apparently similar features. Sedimentology (under review).
12. Ortuno, S., Ferket, H., Cacas, M.-C., Roure, F., Swennen, R., 2003. Late Cretaceous carbonate reservoirs in the Cordoba platform and Veracruz basin (Eastern Mexico). In: Bartolini, C. (Ed.), The Circum-Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region: Plate tectonics, Basin Formation and Hydrocarbon Habitats. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. In press.
13. Sassi, W., Faure, J.-L., 1997. Role of faults and layer interfaces on the spatial variation of stress regimes in basins: inferences from numerical modelling. Tectonophysics 266, 101-119.
14. Swennen, R., Vandeginste, V., Ellam, R., 2003. Genesis of zebra dolomites (Cathedral Formation: Canadian Cordillera Fold and Thrust Belt British Columbia). J. Geochem. Explor. (this volume).
15. Van Geet, M., Swennen, R., Durmishi, C., Roure, F., 2002. Paragenesis of Cretaceous to Eocene carbonate reservoirs in the Ionian fold and thrust belt (Albania): relation between tectonism and fluid flow. Sedimentology 49, 697-718.
16. Whitaker, A.E., Bartolomew, M.J., 1999. Layer parallel shortening: a mechanism for determining deformation timing at the junction of the central and southern Appalachians. Am. J. Sci. 299, 238-254.
17. Yao, Q., Demicco, R.V., 1997. Dolomitization of the Cambrian carbonate platform, Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: dolomite front geometry, fluid inclusion geochemistry, isotope signature, and hydrogeologic modelling studies. Am. J. Sci. 297, 892-938.