Microscale Petrographic, Trace Element, and Isotopic Constraints on Glauconite Diagenesis in Altered Sedimentary Sequences: Implications for Glauconite Geochronology

Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Main Glauconite Bed in the Middle Eocene of Texas: Paleoenvironmental Implications for the Verdine Facies

The Main Glauconite Bed (MGB) is a pelleted greensand located at Stone City Bluff on the south bank of the Brazos River in Burleson County, Texas. It was deposited during the Middle Eocene regional transgression on the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Stratigraphically it lies in the upper Stone City Member, Crockett Formation, Claiborne Group. Its mineralogy and geochemistry were examined in detail, ...

Sedimentary rocks at Meridiani Planum: Origin, diagenesis, and implications for life on Mars

The MER rover Opportunity has carried out the first outcrop-scale investigation of ancient sedimentary rocks on Mars. The rocks, exposed in craters and along fissures in Meridiani Planum, are sandstones formed via the erosion and re-deposition of fine grained siliciclastics and evaporites derived from the chemical weathering of olivine basalts by acidic waters. A stratigraphic section more than...

Effect of Glauconite on the Elastic Properties, Porosity, and Permeability of Reservoirs Rocks

Calculation of simultaneous isotopic and trace element variations during water-rock interaction with applications to carbonate diagenesis

Equations are developed for the calculation of the simultaneous variations in trace element concentrations and radiogenic and stable isotopic compositions that occur during water-rock interaction. The equations are of general use for modeling chemical and isotopic variations in porous media and are applied here to the diagenesis of carbonate rocks and sediments. The variables which control the ...

Petrogenetic association of the oldest lunar basalts: Combined Rb–Sr isotopic and trace element constraints

We report a new radiometric Rb–Sr age determination of 4.0370.04 Ga for high-Al basaltic clast 14321,1353, which is a Group B Apollo 14 high-Al basalt based on its whole-rock incompatible-traceelement chemistry. In addition, available literature Rb–Sr isotope data for Apollo 14 high-Al basalts were reprocessed using the same decay constant and data reduction protocol as used for sample 14321,13...