Depositional Environment Analysis Carbonate Rocks in Montasik District

Characterization of Bitumen Bearing Carbonate Rocks

Several countries, including Canada, contain sizeable bitumen resources in highly fractured carbonate rocks. Any possible recovery of bitumen from these reservoirs will be highly dependent on proper understanding of the rock and fluid properties and how they vary in the reservoir. These carbonates are extremely heterogeneous, and as a result proper reservoir characterization is challenging. In ...

Depositional environment, diagenesis, sequence stratigraphy and geochemistry of Lower Cretaceous carbonate unit (K1) of Kuh-khangormas, Tuyserkan (Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone)

Abstract Lower Cretaceous carbonate units of the Kuhzation, karstification and dolomitization, studies of 40 samples of these carbonate units indicated aragonite as original mineralogy in closed to semi-closed diagenetic system.

Geochemical Characterization of Sulfide Mineralization in Eastern Wisconsin Carbonate Rocks

Evidence for Regional Deeply Buried Carbonate-bearing Rocks on Mars

Wray, S. L. Murchie, B. L. Ehlmann, R. E. Milliken, K. D. Seelos, E. Z. Noe Dobrea, J. F. Mustard, and S. W. Squyres, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA ([email protected]), JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, USA, IAS/Univ. Paris, Orsay, France, Univ. Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA, Brown Univ., Providence, R...

Orbital evidence for more widespread carbonate-bearing rocks on Mars

Carbonates are key minerals for understanding ancient Martian environments because they are indicators of potentially habitable, neutral-to-alkaline water and may be an important reservoir for paleoatmospheric CO2. Previous remote sensing studies have identified mostly Mg-rich carbonates, both in Martian dust and in a Late Noachian rock unit circumferential to the Isidis basin. Here we report e...