Journal
SEDIMENTOLOGY
Volume 56, Issue 7, Pages 2044-2060Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01069.x
Keywords
Carbon; carboxylic acid; dolomitization; oxygen and strontium isotopes; secondary porosity; thermochemical sulphate reduction; Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
Categories
Funding
- Research Fund of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven [OT/01/27]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The Upper Devonian carbonate reefs in West-central Alberta are important petroleum reservoirs that are well-known for their extensive secondary porosity. An outcrop analogue study indicates that an early matrix-selective dolomitization event occurred which is characterized by a major Late Devonian sea water component with increased salinity because of evaporation. It is interpreted that the matrix (replacive) dolomite formed during the Famennian as the result of a combination of both seepage and latent reflux dolomitization, although an additional type or overprinting of later intermediate burial dolomitization cannot be excluded. Formation of the moulds is attributed mainly to the dissolution of undolomitized fossil cores, most typically stromatoporoids. Geochemical modelling indicates that carboxylic acid fluids have the highest potential for dissolving residual calcite in this case. Geochemical models consistent with this analysis and interpretations can reproduce the secondary porosity and suggest a viable dolomitization process for the localities studied.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available