High-Temperature Quartz Cement and the Role of Stylolites in a Deep Gas Reservoir, Spiro Sandstone, Arkoma Basin, USA

Quartz Cementation in Sandstones

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 281-297

  Spotl C ^a   Houseknecht, D W ^b   Riciputi, L R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraints on late quartz formation; High temperature quartz cement and role of stylolites in deep gas reservoir, Spiro Sandstone, Arkoma Basin, USA; Inferred burial and thermal history; Late Palaeozoic Ouachita orogeny; Modelling burial and thermal history of Spiro Sandstone; Quartz cementation in porous sandstones; Spiro Sandstone, a natural gas play in central Arkoma Basin

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); KAOLINITE; LIQUID METHANE; NATURAL GAS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REFLECTION; SANDSTONE;

PALAEOZOIC; POROUS SANDSTONE; QUARTZ CEMENTS; QUARTZ FORMATIONS; SPIRO SANDSTONE, A NATURAL GAS PLAY IN CENTRAL ARKOMA BASIN; THERMAL HISTORY;

QUARTZ;

EID: 84948995089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304237.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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