Arenite Petrography in Sequence Stratigraphy

Petrographic and seismic evidence for the depositional setting of giant turbidite reservoirs and the paleogeographic evolution of Campos Basin, offshore Brazil

“…Quantitative petrography of deepwater sandstones is a powerful source of information on the paleogeographic evolution of source-basin systems (Zuffa, 1987(Zuffa, , 1991Zuffa et al, 1995Zuffa et al, , 2000. The structural analysis of regional 3D seismic data sets was focused on the evidence of basement tectonic reactivations observed during the divergent margin phase in Campos Basin (Cobbold et al, 2001;Fetter et al, 2002).…”

Diagenetic alterations related to marine transgression and regression in fluvial and shallow marine sandstones of the Triassic Buntsandstein and Keuper sequence, the Paris Basin, France

“…This model shows the importance of: (i) variation of detrital composition, particularly the proportion of extra-and intra-basinal grains, primarley carbonate bioclasts (e.g. Garzanti, 1991;Zuffa et al, 1995), (ii) variations in porewater composition (marine, mixed marine-meteoric and meteoric) as a result of relative sealevel changes (Hart et al, 1992;McKay et al, 1995;Morad et al, 2000), and (iii) residence time of the sediments under certain geochemical condition (Taylor et al, 1995;El-ghali et al, 2006) in controlling the spatial and temporal distributions of diagenetic alterations within sequence stratigraphic framework. Dissolution of silicate grains and formation of K-feldspar overgrowths and kaolinite in the fluvio-deltaic, LST sandstones is attributed to the effective meteoric water circulation during relative sea-level fall and formation of LST.…”

“…Van Wagoner et al, 1990;Posamentier and Allen, 1999 control the sequence stratigraphic framework also exert impact on near-surface diagenetic alterations. These parameters include: (1) changes in pore water chemistry between meteoric, mixed marine-meteoric, and marine, which occur in response to transgression and regression events (Meisler et al, 1984;Hart et al, 1992;McKay et al, 1995;Morad et al, 2000;El-ghali et al, 2006), (2) rates of deposition, and hence the residence time of the sediments under certain geochemical conditions (Taylor et al, 1995;Ketzer et al, 2003;El-ghali et al, 2006), and (3) variations in the detrital composition, particularly intra-basinal clasts versus extrabasinal clasts owing to fluvial incision and marine erosion (Amorosi, 1995;Zuffa et al, 1995). Variations in these parameters are marked mostly at sequence stratigraphic surfaces (i.e.…”

Sedimentary petrology characteristics and their implications for provenance of Hoanh Bo Basin Neogene system in Quang Ninh province, north-eastern Vietnam

“…Dickinson & Suczek 1979, Ingersoll & Suczek 1979, Dickinson & Valloni 1980, Valloni & Mezzadri 1984, Pettijohn et al 1987. Some works have shown that compositonal variations indicate a change of depostional environments and climate condition (Suttner 1974, Mack 1984, while others considered a change of composition connected with the role of relative sea-level fluctuation (Zuffa 1985, Morton et al 1991, Johsson & Basu 1993, Zuffa et al 1995. In addition, the grain-size analysis is an useful tool not only for the classification of clastic deposits, but also for the interpretation of their depositional mechanisms and environments (Folk & Ward 1957, Syvitski 1997, Sun et al 2002, Torres et al 2005.…”