Quartz Cementation in Mudstones: Sheet-Like Quartz Cement from Clay Mineral Reactions during Burial

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-63

  Thyberg, Brit ^a   Jahren, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alignment; Mudstone compaction; North Sea; Overpressure; Quartz cementation

Indexed keywords

AUTHIGENIC; CATHODE LUMINESCENCE; DISSOLUTION-PRECIPITATION PROCESS; LATE CRETACEOUS; MICROQUARTZ; MINERAL REACTIONS; MUDSTONE COMPACTION; NORTH SEA; OVERPRESSURE; QUARTZ CEMENTATION; QUARTZ CEMENTS; QUARTZ PLATELETS; SCHISTOSITY; SHEET-LIKE; SMECTITES; THIN SHEET; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

ALIGNMENT; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CEMENTING (SHAFTS); COMPACTION; DISSOLUTION; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; PLATELETS; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS;

CEMENTS;

ANISOTROPY; AUTHIGENESIS; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; CEMENTATION; CLAY MINERAL; COMPACTION; MUDSTONE; OVERPRESSURE; PETROGRAPHY; QUARTZ; SILICA; SMECTITE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; VORING BASIN;

EID: 79751492550     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079310-028     Document Type: Article

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