Origin and distribution of calcite cements in a folded fluvial succession: The Puig-reig anticline (south-eastern Pyrenees)

Autor: Xiaolong Sun, Enrique Gomez‐Rivas, David Cruset, Juan Alcalde, Daniel Muñoz‐López, Irene Cantarero, Juan Diego Martín‐Martín, Cédric M. John, Anna Travé
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, Alcalde, Juan, Alcalde, Juan [0000-0001-9806-5600]
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Popis: As one of the predominant diagenetic products in clastic rocks, calcite cements are typical fingerprints of cement-forming fluids and are key controls on reservoir quality. The Puig-reig anticline, in the south-eastern Pyrenees (Spain), exposes excellent outcrops of conglomerates, sandstones and claystones, which were deposited from a proximal to medial fluvial system and underwent folding, fracturing and cementation. This anticline constitutes an appropriate case study to investigate the origin and distribution of calcite cements during folding evolution and how they affect reservoir quality. Based on structural, petrographic and geochemical analyses (carbon, oxygen, strontium and clumped isotopes and elemental composition), five generations of calcite cements (Cc0 to Cc4) have been identified, filling intergranular porosity of host rocks, faults and four fracture sets (F1 to F4). Calcite cement Cc0 precipitated in intergranular porosity from meteoric fluids in the phreatic zone during the early diagenetic stage. During the most intense phase of thrusting and folding, Cc1 precipitated in intergranular porosity, faults and F1 to F4 fracture sets from hydrothermal fluids that migrated from deeper areas of the Pyrenean chain. During the late stage of fold growth, Cc2 precipitated in faults and their associated fractures in the anticline crest from hydrothermal fluids but at shallower burial depths than that of Cc1. Calcite cement Cc3 mainly precipitated in fractures with the same strike as F1 and F4 fracture sets in the north-western part of the anticline, from formation fluids that probably migrated through the frontal thrust of the south-eastern Pyrenees. During the continuous fold denudation, Cc4 precipitated from meteoric fluids in F1 to F4 fracture sets across the anticline. Results indicate that at foreland basin margins, external fluids coeval with compressional deformation and/or alteration of detrital carbonates contribute to intensive calcite cementation. This can result in an overall occlusion of porosity and significantly damaged reservoir quality.
was provided by the Catalan Council to the Grup Consolidat de Recerca “Geologia Sedimentària” (2017SGR-824) and research projects PGC2018-093903-B-C22 and PID2020-118999GB-I00, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN) / State Research Agency of Spain (AEI) /10.13039/501100011033. XS acknowledges funding by the China Scholarship Council for a PhD scholarship (201806450043). EGR acknowledges the Ramón y Cajal fellowship RYC2018-026335-I and JA the Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación fellowship IJC2018-036074-I, both funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN) / State Research Agency of Spain (AEI) / European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) /10.13039/501100011033.
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