Dissolution/precipitation mechanisms for diagenesis in sedimentary basins

Dissolution /precipitation mechanisms for diagenesis in sedimentary basins

[1] The transformation of hydrated clay minerals (smectite) to anhydrous forms (illite) occurs in the diagenesis of shales in sedimentary basins. The released pore water can lead to excess pore pressures and is of concern in oil drilling operations. Most simply, the process can be modeled as a first-order thermally activated reaction, but an alternative interpretation is that diagenesis occurs ...

Mathematical Modelling of Compaction and Diagenesis in Sedimentary Basins

Fast and Slow Compaction in Sedimentary Basins

A mathematical model of compaction in sedimentary basins is presented and analyzed. Compaction occurs when accumulating sediments compact under their own weight, expelling pore water in the process. If sedimentation is rapid or the permeability is low, then high pore pressures can result, a phenomenon which is of importance in oil drilling operations. Here we show that one-dimensional compactio...

Manganese mineralogy and diagenesis in the sedimentary rock record

Oxidation of manganese (II) to manganese (III,IV) demands oxidants with very high redox potentials; consequently, manganese oxides are both excellent proxies for molecular oxygen and highly favorable electron acceptors when oxygen is absent. The first of these features results in manganese-enriched sedimentary rocks (manganese deposits, commonly Mn ore deposits), which generally correspond to t...

Adaptive Resonance Theory Based Sedimentary Basins Identification

The objective of this paper is to present identification and recognition of Magneto-telluric data for sedimentary basins using Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART). Several sets of data consisting of 17 phases and 17 apparent resistivity values and their respective tag values are given. These sets of data are used for training the network, and other sets of data are used to test the network. The tes...