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Diagenetic peculiarities of potential Lower Jurassic reservoir sandstones, Troms 1 area, Off Northern Norway, and their tectonic significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

P. Riches ,
I. Traub-Sobott ,
W. Zimmerle  and
U. Zinkernagel
P. Riches
Affiliation:
Texaco Ltd, 1 Knightsbridge Green, London SW1X 7QJ, UK
I. Traub-Sobott
Affiliation:
Deutsche Texaco AG, Laboratorium Für Erdölgewinnung, D-3109 Wietze
W. Zimmerle
Affiliation:
Deutsche Texaco AG, Laboratorium Für Erdölgewinnung, D-3109 Wietze
U. Zinkernagel
Affiliation:
Im Pastoratsbusch, D-4630 Bochum 1, FRG
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Abstract

In the Troms 1 area, sediments of Early to Middle Jurassic age, ranging from alluvial plain deposits at the base, passing through coastal plain/tidal flat sediments up into high-energy nearshore shallow-marine sands, mark a transgression. The sandstones, classified as mineralogically and texturally mature quartz-arenites, are potential reservoir rocks in the eastern part of the area. The apparent supermaturity, however, is of secondary origin because unstable detrital components were dissolved during diagenesis. The succession of complex diagenetic processes was: (i) mechanical compaction and simultaneous pressure solution, (ii) partial dissolution with corrosion of detrital quartz and dissolution of unstable fragments, (iii) silica cementation, (iv) calcite cementation, (v) partial carbonate dissolution, (vi) kaolinite/Fe-carbonate cementation in the remaining pore space. Porosity and permeability of the sandstones are controlled by the degree of silicification and by dissolution processes. Two dissolution stages led to partial ‘skeletonization’ of the detrital framework and to elimination of unstable detrital grains. The first stage was a basic process leading to corrosion of detrital quartz and creating transitory secondary porosity; the second stage was acidic leading to the present preserved secondary porosity. Diagenetic dissolution channels formed. The degree of diagenetic alteration was much higher than normally observed in sandstones of such burial depth. Hydrothermal solutions rising from deep-seated faults may have led to this unusual alteration and triggered a rift-related type of complex diagenesis.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 565 - 584
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1986

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