Polyphased Quartz Cementation and Its Sources: A Case Study from the Upper Palaeozoic Haushi Group Sandstones, Sultanate of Oman

Quartz Cementation in Sandstones

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 253-270

  Hartmann, B H ^a   Juhasz Bodnar K ^a   Ramseyer, K ^a   Matter, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Authigenic quartz precipitation; Burial and thermal history of basin reconstructed using PetroMod; Fluid inclusion microthermometry; Haushi group sediments; Interior Oman Sedimentary Basin (IOSB); Polyphased quartz cementation; Polyphased quartz cementation and its sources Upper Palaeozoic Haushi group sandstones; Smectite to illite transformation in mixed layer clay minerals

Indexed keywords

ALUMINOSILICATES; CEMENTING (SHAFTS); DISSOLUTION; KAOLINITE; MINERALOGY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SETTLING TANKS;

AUTHIGENIC; FLUID INCLUSION MICROTHERMOMETRY; MIXED-LAYER CLAY MINERALS; QUARTZ CEMENTATION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; THERMAL HISTORY; UPPER PALAEOZOIC;

QUARTZ;

EID: 84948952904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304237.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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