Evaluation of redox versus thermal maturity controls on δ15N in organic rich shales: A case study of the woodford shale, anadarko basin, Oklahoma, USA

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 83-84, Issue , 2015, Pages 127-139

  Rivera, Keith T ^a   Puckette, James ^a   Quan, Tracy M ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depositional environment; Nitrogen isotopes; Redox; Thermal maturity; Vitrinite reflectance; Woodford shale

Indexed keywords

CORE SAMPLES; DEPOSITION; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE OIL; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; REDOX; THERMAL MATURITY; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE; WOODFORD SHALES;

SHALE;

BOTTOM WATER; CATAGENESIS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; REDOX CONDITIONS; SHALE; TRACE METAL;

ANADARKO BASIN; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926635690     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

References (95)

1. Algeo T.J., Lyons T.W. Mo-total organic carbon covariation in modern anoxic marine environments: implications for analysis of paleoredox and paleohydrographic conditions. Paleoceanography 2006, 21. 10.1029/2004PA001112.
2. Altabet M.A. Isotopic tracers of the marine nitrogen cycle: present and past. Marine Organic Matter: Biomarkers, Isotopes and DNA 2005, 251-293. Springer, Berlin. J.K. Volkman (Ed.).
3. Altabet M.A., Deuser W.G., Honjo S., Stienen C. Seasonal and depth-related changes in the source of sinking particles in the North Atlantic. Nature 1991, 354:136-139.
4. Altabet M.A., Francois R. Sedimentary nitrogen isotopic ratio as a recorder for surface ocean nitrate utilization. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 1994, 8:103-116.
5. Barth T., Rist K., Huseby B., Ocampo R. The distribution of nitrogen between bitumen, water and residue in hydrous pyrolysis of extracted Messel oil shale. Organic Geochemistry 1996, 24:889-895.
6. Bebout G.E., Fogel M.L. Nitrogen-isotope compositions of metasedimentary rocks in the Catalina Schist, California: implications for metamorphic devolatilization history. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1992, 56:2839-2849.
7. Behar F., Gillaizeau B., Derenne S., Largeau C. Nitrogen distribution in the pyrolysis products of a Type II kerogen (Cenomanian, Italy). Timing of molecular nitrogen production versus other gases. Energy & Fuels 2000, 14:431-440.
8. Boudou J.-P., Schimmelmann A., Ader M., Mastalerz M., Sebilo M., Gengembre L. Organic nitrogen chemistry during low-grade metamorphism. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2008, 72:1199-1221.
9. Boudou J.P., Mariotti A., Oudin J.L. Unexpected enrichment of nitrogen during the diagenetic evolution of sedimentary organic-matter. Fuel 1984, 63:1508-1510.
10. Brunner B., Contreras S., Lehmann M.F., Matantseva O., Rollog M., Kalvelage T., Klockgether G., Lavik G., Jetten M.S.M., Kartal B., Kuypers M.M.M. Nitrogen isotope effects induced by anammox bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013, 110:18994-18999.
11. Calvert S.E., Pedersen T.F., Karlin R.E. Geochemical and isotopic evidence for post-glacial palaeoceanographic changes in Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. Marine Geology 2001, 174:278-305.
12. Callner, S.A., 2014. An integrated approach to understanding sedimentary structures and depositional processes in Devonian-Mississippian black shale: the Woodford Shale and associated strata in the southern Midcontinent (Master's Thesis). Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 94.
13. Cardott B.J. Thermal maturation of the Woodford Shale in the Anadarko Basin. Anadarko Basin Symposium, Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 1989, 32-46. The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. K.S. Johnson (Ed.).
14. Cardott, B.J., 2005. Overview of unconventional energy resources of Oklahoma. In: Cardott, B.J. (Ed.). Unconventional energy resources in the southern Midcontinent, 2004 symposium: Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular, pp. 7-18.
15. Cardott B.J. Thermal maturity of Woodford Shale gas and oil plays, Oklahoma, USA. International Journal of Coal Geology 2012, 103:109-119.
16. Cardott B.J., Lambert M.W. Thermal maturation by vitrinite reflectance of Woodford Shale, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 1985, 69:1982-1998.
17. Codispoti L.A., Brandes J.A., Christensen J.P., Devol A.H., Naqvi S.W.A., Paerl H.W., Yoshinari T. The oceanic fixed nitrogen and nitrous oxide budgets: moving targets as we enter the anthropocene?. Scientia Marina 2001, 65:85-105.
18. Comer, J.B., 2007. Lithologic characteristics and gas production potential of Woodford Shale in the southern mid-continent (abs.). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exposition, Abstracts with Programs, 356.
19. Conant, L.C., Swanson, V.E., 1961. Chattanooga Shale and related rocks of central Tennessee and nearby areas. Geological Survey Professional Paper 357, 97.
20. 13C measurements. Analytical Chemistry 2006, 78:2439-2441.
21. Cruse A.M., Lyons T.W. Trace metal records of regional paleoenvironmental variability in Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) black shales. Chemical Geology 2004, 206:319-345.
22. Delwiche C.C., Steyn P.L. Nitrogen isotope fractionation in soils and microbial reactions. Environmental Science and Technology 1970, 4:929-935.
23. Dorta C.C., Rona E. Geochemistry of uranium in the Cariaco Trench. Bulletin of Marine Science 1971, 21:754-765.
24. Emerson S., Hedges J.I. Processes controlling the organic carbon content of open ocean sediments. Paleoceanography 1988, 3:621-634.
25. Emmer E., Thunell R.C. Nitrogen isotope variations in Santa Barbara Basin sediments: implications for denitrification in the eastern tropical North Pacific during the last 50,000years. Paleoceanography 2000, 15:377-387.
26. Fertl W.H., Chilingarian G.V. Hydrocarbon resource evaluation in the Woodford Shale using well logs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 1990, 4:347-357.
27. Formolo M.J., Riedinger N., Gill B.C. Geochemical evidence for euxinia during the Late Devonian extinction events in the Michigan Basin (USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2014, 414:146-154.
28. Franseen E.K., Byrnes A.P., Cansler J.R., Steinhauff D.M., Carr T.R. The Geology of Kansas - Arbuckle Group, Current Research in Earth Sciences 2004, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS.
29. Freudenthal T., Wagner T., Wenzhofer F., Zabel M., Wefer G. Early diagenesis of organic matter from sediments of the eastern subtropical Atlantic: evidence from stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2001, 65:1795-1808.
30. Galbraith E.D., Sigman D.M., Robinson R.S., Pedersen T.F. Nitrogen in past marine environments. Nitrogen in the Marine Environment 2008, 1497-1535. Elsevier, Amsterdam. D.G. Capone, D.A. Bronk, M.R. Mulholland, E.J. Carpenter (Eds.).
31. Gallardo J., Blackwell D.D. Thermal structure of the Anadarko basin. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 1999, 83:333-361.
32. Ganeshram R.S., Pedersen T.F., Calvert S.E., François R. Reduced nitrogen fixation in the glacial ocean inferred from changes in marine nitrogen and phosphorus inventories. Nature 2002, 415:156-159.
33. Ganeshram R.S., Pedersen T.F., Calvert S.E., McNeill G.W., Fontugne M.R. Glacial-interglacial variability in denitrification in the world's oceans: causes and consequences. Paleoceanography 2000, 15:361-376.
34. Ganeshram R.S., Pedersen T.F., Calvert S.E., Murray J.W. Large changes in oceanic nutrient inventories from glacial to interglacial periods. Nature 1995, 376:755-758.
35. 2 production versus other gases. Energy & Fuels 1997, 11:1237-1249.
36. Godfrey L.V., Glass J.B. The geochemical record of the ancient nitrogen cycle, nitrogen isotopes and metal cofactors. Methods in Enzymology: Research on Nitrification and Related Processes, Part A 2011, vol. 486:483-506. Elsevier Academic Press Inc., San Diego. M.G. Klotz (Ed.).
37. Haug G.H., Pedersen T.F., Sigman D.M., Calvert S.E., Nielsen B., Peterson L.C. Glacial/interglacial variations in production and nitrogen fixation in the Cariaco Basin during the last 580kyr. Paleoceanography 1998, 13:427-432.
38. Jenkyns H.C., Gröcke D.R., Hesselbo S.P. Nitrogen isotopic evidence for water mass denitrification during the early Toarcian (Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event. Paleoceanography 2001, 16:593-603.
39. Jenkyns, H.C., Matthews, A., Tsikos, H., Erel, Y., 2007. Nitrate reduction, sulfate reduction, and sedimentary iron isotope evolution during the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event. Paleoceanography 22, PA3208. http://dx.doi.org/3210.1029/2006PA001355.
40. Jia Y. Nitrogen isotope fractionations during progressive metamorphism: a case study from the Paleozoic Cooma metasedimentary complex, southeast Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2006, 70:5201-5214.
41. Johnson K.S. Geologic evolution of the Anadarko Basin. Anadarko Basin Symposium, Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 1989, 3-12. The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. K.S. Johnson (Ed.).
42. Junium C.K., Arthur M.A. Nitrogen cycling during the Cretaceous, Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event II. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2007, 8:Q03002. http://dx.doi.org/03010.01029/02006GC001328.
43. Jurisch A., Krooss B.M. A pyrolytic study of the speciation and isotopic composition of nitrogen in carboniferous shales of the North German Basin. Organic Geochemistry 2008, 39:924-928.
44. Kamann, P.J., 2006. Surface-to-subsurface correlation and lithostratigraphic framework of the Caney Shale (including the "Mayes" Formation) in Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pittsburg, and Pontotoc Counties, Oklahoma (Master's Thesis). Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 259 p.
45. Kienast S.S., Calvert S.E., Pedersen T.F. Nitrogen isotope and productivity variations along the northeast Pacific margin over the last 120kyr: surface and subsurface paleoceanography. Paleoceanography 2002, 17:1055. http://dx.doi.org/1010.1029/2001PA000650.
46. Kirkland D.W., Denison R.E., Summers D.M., Gormly J.R. Geology and organic geochemistry of the Woodford Shale in the Criner Hills and western Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 1992, 93:38-69.
47. Krooss B.M., Friberg L., Gensterblum Y., Hollenstein J., Prinz D., Littke R. Investigation of the pyrolytic liberation of molecular nitrogen from Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks. International Journal of Earth Sciences 2005, 94:1023-1038.
48. Krooss B.M., Jurisch A., Plessen B. Investigation of the fate of nitrogen in Palaeozoic shales of the Central European Basin. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 2006, 89:191-194.
49. Lambert M.W. Internal stratigraphy and organic facies of the Devonian-Mississippian Chattanooga (Woodford) Shale in Oklahoma and Kansas. Source Rocks in A Sequence Stratigraphic Framework 1993, AAPG Studies in Geology, Tulsa, OK. B.J. Katz, L.M. Pratt (Eds.).
50. Lehmann M.F., Bernasconi S.M., Barbieri A., McKenzie J.A. Preservation of organic matter and alteration of its carbon and nitrogen isotope composition during simulated and in situ early sedimentary diagenesis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2002, 66:3573-3584.
51. Lewan M.D. Effects of thermal maturation on stable organic carbon isotopes as determined by hydrous pyrolysis of Woodford Shale. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1983, 47:1471-1479.
52. 2 in natural gas and hydrothermal systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2009, 73:6282-6297.
53. Libes S.M., Deuser W.G. The isotope geochemistry of particulate nitrogen in the Peru Upwelling Area and the Gulf of Maine. Deep-Sea Research 1988, 35:517-533.
54. Littke R., Krooss B., Idiz E., Frielingsdorf J. Molecular nitrogen in natural-gas accumulations - generation from sedimentary organic-matter at high-temperatures. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 1995, 79:410-430.
55. Lyons T.W., Severmann S. A critical look at iron paleoredox proxies based on new insights from modern euxinic marine basins. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2006, 70:5698-5722.
56. Lyons T.W., Werne J.P., Hollander D.J., Murray R.W. Contrasting sulfur geochemistry and Fe/Al and Mo/Al ratios across the last oxic-to-anoxic transition in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela. Chemical Geology 2003, 195:131-157.
57. Macko S.A., Estep M.L.F. Microbial alteration of stable nitrogen and carbon isotopic compositions of organic matter. Organic Geochemistry 1984, 6:787-790.
58. Macko S.A., Quick R.S. A geochemical study of oil migration at source rock reservior contacts: stable isotopes. Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1985, 10:199-205.
59. Meyers P.A. Organic geochemical proxies of paleoceanographic, paleolimnologic, and paleoclimatic processes. Organic Geochemistry 1997, 27:213-250.
60. Meyers P.A., Bernasconi S.M., Yum J.-G. 20 My of nitrogen fixation during deposition of mid-Cretaceous black shales on the Demerara Rise, equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Organic Geochemistry 2009, 40:158-166.
61. Miceli Romero A., Philp R.P. Organic geochemistry of the Woodford Shale, southeastern Oklahoma: how variable can shales be?. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 2012, 96:493-517.
62. Möbius J., Lahajnar N., Emeis K.C. Diagenetic control of nitrogen isotope ratios in Holocene sapropels and recent sediments from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Biogeosciences 2010, 7:3901-3914.
63. Morford J.L., Emerson S. The geochemistry of redox sensitive trace metals in sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1999, 63:1735-1750.
64. Oldenburg T.B.P., Larter S.R., Huang H. Nitrogen isotope systematics of petroleum fractions of differing polarity - neutral versus basic compounds. Organic Geochemistry 2007, 38:1789-1794.
65. Philp R.P., Chen J., Galvez-Sinibaldi A., Wang H., Allen J.D. Effects of weathering and maturity on the geochemical characteristics of the Woodford Shale. Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 1992, 93:106-121.
66. Quan T.M., Adigwe E.N., Riedinger N., Puckette J. Evaluating nitrogen isotopes as proxies for depositional environmental conditions in shales: comparing Caney and Woodford Shales in the Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma. Chemical Geology 2013, 360-361:231-240.
67. Quan T.M., Falkowski P.G. Redox control of N:P ratios in aquatic ecosystems. Geobiology 2009, 7:124-139.
68. Quan, T.M., van de Schootbrugge, B., Field, M.P., Rosenthal, Y., Falkowski, P.G., 2008. Nitrogen isotope and trace metal analyses from the Mingolsheim core (Germany): evidence for redox variations across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22, GB2014. http://dx.doi.org/2010.1029/2007GB002981.
69. Quan T.M., Wright J.D., Falkowski P.G. Co-variation of nitrogen isotopes and redox states through glacial-interglacial cycles in the Black Sea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2013, 112:305-320.
70. Raiswell R., Newton R., Wignall P.B. An indicator of water-column anoxia: resolution of biofaces variations in the Kimmeridge Clay (Upper Jurassic, U.K.). Journal of Sedimentary Research 2001, 71:286-294.
71. Roberts C.T., Mitterer R.M. Laminated black shale-bedded chert cyclicity in the Woodford Formation, Southern Oklahoma. Source Rocks in the Southern Midcontinent, 1990 Symposium, Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 1992, 330-336. The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. K.S. Johnson, B.J. Cardott (Eds.).
72. Robinson, R.S., Kienast, M., Albuquerque, A.L., Altabet, M., Contreras, S., Holz, R.D., Dubois, N., Francois, R., Galbraith, E., Hsu, T.C., Ivanochko, T., Jaccard, S., Kao, S.J., Kiefer, T., Kienast, S., Lehmann, M.F., Martinez, P., McCarthy, M., Mobius, J., Pedersen, T., Quan, T.M., Ryabenko, E., Schmittner, A., Schneider, R., Schneider-Mor, A., Shigemitsu, M., Sinclair, D., Somes, C., Studer, A., Thunell, R., Yang, J.Y., 2012. A review of nitrogen isotopic alteration in marine sediments. Paleoceanography 27, PA4203. http://dx.doi.org/4210.1029/2012PA002321.
73. Ryabenko E., Kock A., Bange H.W., Altabet M.A., Wallace D.W.R. Contrasting biogeochemistry of nitrogen in the Atlantic and Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zones. Biogeosciences 2012, 9:203-215.
74. Schieber J. The simple gifts and buried treasures-implications of finding bioturbation and erosion surfaces in black shales. The Sedimentary Record 2003, 1:4-8.
75. Schimmelmann A., Lis G.P. Nitrogen isotopic exchange during maturation of organic matter. Organic Geochemistry 2010, 41:63-70.
76. Schubert C.J., Stein R., Calvert S.E. Tracking nutrient and productivity variations over the last deglaciation in the Arctic Ocean. Paleoceanography 2001, 16:199-211.
77. Scott C., Lyons T.W. Contrasting molybdenum cycling and isotopic properties in euxinic versus non-euxinic sediments and sedimentary rocks: refining the paleoproxies. Chemical Geology 2012, 324:19-27.
78. Scranton M.I., Astor Y., Bohrer R., Ho T.-Y., Muller-Karger F. Controls on temporal variability of the geochemistry of the deep Cariaco Basin. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 2001, 48:1605-1625.
79. Scranton M.I., Sayles F.L., Bacon M.P., Brewer P.G. Temporal changes in the hydrography and chemistry of the Cariaco Trench. Deep Sea Research Part A: Oceanographic Research Papers 1987, 34:945-963.
80. Sigman D.M., DiFiore P.J., Hain M.P., Deutsch C., Karl D.M. Sinking organic matter spreads the nitrogen isotopic signal of pelagic denitrification in the North Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters 2009, 36:L08605. http://dx.doi.org/08610.01029/02008GL035784.
81. Stahl W.J. Carbon and nitrogen isotopes in hydrocarbon research and exploration. Chemical Geology 1977, 20:121-149.
82. Stiehl G., Lehmann M. Isotope variations of nitrogen in humic and bituminous natural organic-substances. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1980, 44:1737-1746.
83. Svensen H., Bebout G., Kronz A., Li L., Planke S., Chevallier L., Jamtveit B. Nitrogen geochemistry as a tracer of fluid flow in a hydrothermal vent complex in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2008, 72:4929-4947.
84. Talbot M.R. Nitrogen isotopes in palaeolimnology. Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Physical and Geochemical Methods 2001, vol. 2:401-439. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands. W.M. Last, J.P. Smol (Eds.).
85. Taylor S.R., McLennan S.M. The Continental Crust: Its Composition and Evolution 1985, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 312 p.
86. Thunell, R.C., Kepple, A.B., 2004. Glacial-holocene δ15N record from the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico: implication for denitrification in the eastern equatorial Pacific and changes in atmospheric N2O. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18, GB1001. http://dx.doi.org/1010.1029/2002GB002028.
87. Thunell, R.C., Sigman, D.M., Muller-Karger, F., Astor, Y., Varela, R., 2004. Nitrogen isotope dynamics of the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18, GB3001. http://dx.doi.org/3010.1029/2003GB002185.
88. Tyson R.V., Pearson T.H. Modern and ancient continental shelf anoxia: an overview. Modern and Ancient Continental Shelf Anoxia 1991, 1-24. Geological Society Special Publications, London. R.V. Tyson, T.H. Pearson (Eds.).
89. Urban, J.B., 1960. Microfossils of the Woodford Shale (Devonian) of Oklahoma (Master's Thesis). University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 77 p.
90. Vandenbrouke M., Largeau C. Kerogen origin, evolution and structure. Organic Geochemistry 2007, 38:719-833.
91. Wada E. Nitrogen isotope fractionation and its significance in biogeochemical processes occurring in marine environments. Isotope Marine Chemistry 1980, 375-398. Uchida Rokakuho Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo. E.D. Goldberg, Y. Horibe (Eds.).
92. Watson B.P. Internal stratigraphy, composition, and depositional setting of the Woodford Shale in southern Seminole County, Oklahoma 2008, Boone Pickens School of Geology. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 141 p.
93. Werne J.P., Sageman B.B., Lyons T.W., Hollander D.J. An integrated assessment of a "type euxinic" deposit: evidence for multiple controls on black shale deposition in the Middle Devonian Oatka Creek Formation. American Journal of Science 2002, 302:110-143.
94. Williams L.B., Ferrell R.E., Hutcheon I., Bakel A.J., Walsh M.M., Krouse H.R. Nitrogen isotope geochemistry of organic matter and minerals during diagenesis and hydrocarbon migration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1995, 59:765-779.
95. Zhu Y., Shi B., Fang C. The isotopic compositions of molecular nitrogen: implications on their origins in natural gas accumulations. Chemical Geology 2000, 164:321-330.