Reservoir potential of Late Cretaceous terrestrial to shallow marine sandstones, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Higgs, Karen E.; Arnot, Malcolm J.; Browne, G. H.; Kennedy, Elizabeth M.

doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.08.002

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“…The lower part of the Haerenga Supergroup is exposed onshore in the northwestern South Island, as represented by two formations of the Pakawau Group (Rakopi and North Cape) and the lowermost formation of the Kapuni Group (Farewell). The older Rakopi Formation comprises Campanian – early Maastrichtian fluvial-floodplain coal measure sandstones and siltstones (Browne et al 2010; Higgs et al 2010). The overlying Maastrichtian North Cape Formation records the first marine incursions as shallow-marine and marginal-marine environments but also conglomerate and sandstone (Fresne Conglomerate) and coal measure (Wainui Member) units.…”

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Perspectives on Cretaceous Gondwana break-up from detrital zircon provenance of southern Zealandia sandstones

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-Detrital zircon U-Pb ages in 37 sandstones from late Early -Late Cretaceous marine and non-marine successions across southern Zealandia indicate a provenance from local basement within present-day Zealandia. Samples from Taranaki Basin were derived from Median and Karamea batholith granitoids with transport directions from west to east. Samples from West Coast, Western Southland and Great South basins contain components derived more locally and more variably from Median Batholith and Rahu Suite granitoids and/or the Palaeozoic Buller Terrane. West Coast Basin samples have more plutonic contributions and Great South Basin localities have more Albian-aged (c. 110-100 Ma) zircons. Samples from Canterbury Basin were sourced from Torlesse Composite Terrane basement. The provenance variations are present in both marine and non-marine sandstones and suggest localized watersheds. This fits an interpretation of Late Cretaceous deposition in riftcontrolled basins across southern Zealandia during pre-Gondwana break-up regional extension. More speculatively, some additional source areas may have been created at the rifted margins of Zealandia during this break-up.

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Perspectives on Cretaceous Gondwana break-up from detrital zircon provenance of southern Zealandia sandstones

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“…Instead, most intergranular pores without carbonate cements were interpreted as secondary pores formed by the dissolution of carbonate cements (Taylor et al 2010). Based on the CO 2 /organic acids leaching hypothesis, and the negative relationship between porosity and the amount of carbonate cements in reservoirs, extensive burial dissolution of carbonate minerals has also been suggested by many other authors in the last few decades (Dutton and Willis 1998;Gibling et al 2000;Harris and Bustin 2000;Higgs et al 2010;Irwin and Hurst 1983;Khidir and Catuneanu 2010;Kordi et al 2011;Mcbride 1988;Shanmugam 1984;Wilkinson et al 1997). Similar to Schmidt and McDonald (1979a, b), no convincing petrography evidence on carbonate dissolution was provided in these publications.…”

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“…The porosity evolution model proposed by Schmidt and McDonald (Fig. 1a) was initially accepted and embraced by many geologists (Bjørlykke and Jahren 2012;Boggs 2011;Burley 1986;Dutton and Willis 1998;Higgs et al 2010;Khidir and Catuneanu 2010;Schmidt and McDonald 1979a;Shanmugam 1984;Wilkinson et al 1997) to explain the fairly common occurrence of intergranular porosity in sandstone buried to significant depth. However, as a general rule, global porosity-depth data show a steady decrease in the sandstone P50, P10, and the maximum porosity trends as the depth increases ( Fig.…”

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“…1a). Based on petrographic identification and interpretation, this idea has been prominent in the literature on sandstone diagenesis for about 40 years (Bjørlykke and Jahren 2012;Boggs 2011;Burley 1986;Dutton and Willis 1998;Higgs et al 2010;Khidir and Catuneanu 2010;Kordi et al 2011;Schmidt and McDonald 1979a;Shanmugam 1984;Xi et al 2016;Wilkinson et al 1997;Yuan et al 2015a, b, c). At the same time, however, the advent of the deep burial dissolution proposals has caused intense debates (Fig.…”

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How important is carbonate dissolution in buried sandstones: evidences from petrography, porosity, experiments, and geochemical calculations

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Burial dissolution of feldspar and carbonate minerals has been proposed to generate large volumes of secondary pores in subsurface reservoirs. Secondary porosity due to feldspar dissolution is ubiquitous in buried sandstones; however, extensive burial dissolution of carbonate minerals in subsurface sandstones is still debatable. In this paper, we first present four types of typical selective dissolution assemblages of feldspars and carbonate minerals developed in different sandstones. Under the constraints of porosity data, water-rock experiments, geochemical calculations of aggressive fluids, diagenetic mass transfer, and a review of publications on mineral dissolution in sandstone reservoirs, we argue that the hypothesis for the creation of significant volumes of secondary porosity by mesodiagenetic carbonate dissolution in subsurface sandstones is in conflict with the limited volume of aggressive fluids in rocks. In addition, no transfer mechanism supports removal of the dissolution products due to the small water volume in the subsurface reservoirs and the low mass concentration gradients in the pore water. Convincing petrographic evidence supports the view that the extensive dissolution of carbonate cements in sandstone rocks is usually associated with a high flux of deep hot fluids provided via fault systems or with meteoric freshwater during the eodiagenesis and telodiagenesis stages. The presumption of extensive mesogenetic dissolution of carbonate cements producing a significant net increase in secondary porosity should be used with careful consideration of the geological background in prediction of sandstone quality.

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“…Previous petrographic studies suggest an increase in sandstone maturity from lower to middle Palaeogene strata (e.g. Higgs, 2002, 2010, 2013; Higgs & King, 2018), with highly mature quartz arenites being a particular feature of all Eocene strata in New Zealand (e.g. Bernet & Bassett, 2016).…”

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A geochemical and biostratigraphic approach to investigating regional changes in sandstone composition through time; an example from Paleocene–Eocene strata, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

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et al. 2020

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A geochemical and biostratigraphic approach has been applied to investigate the spatial and stratigraphic variability of Palaeogene sandstones from key wells in Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Chronostratigraphic control is predominantly based on miospore zonation, while differences in the composition of Paleocene and Eocene sandstones are supported by geochemical evidence. Stratigraphic changes are manifested by a significant decrease in Na2O across the New Zealand miospore PM3b/MH1 early Eocene zonal boundary, at approximately 53.5 Ma. The change in Na2O is associated with a decrease in baseline concentrations of many other major (MnO, CaO, TiO2) and trace elements, and is interpreted to reflect a significant change in sandstone maturity. Paleocene sandstones are characterized by abundant plagioclase (albite and locally Na–Ca plagioclase), significant biotite and a range of heavy minerals, while Eocene sandstones are typically quartzose, with K-feldspar dominant over plagioclase, low mica contents and rare heavy minerals comprising a resistant suite. This change could reflect a change in provenance from local plutonic basement during the Paleocene Epoch to relatively quartz- and K-feldspar-rich granitic sources during Eocene time. However, significant quartz enrichment of Eocene sediment was also likely due to transportation reworking/winnowing along the palaeoshoreface and enhanced chemical weathering, driven in part by long-term global warming associated with the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. The broad-ranging changes in major-element composition overprint local variations in sediment provenance, which are only detectable from the immobile trace-element geochemistry.

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Reservoir potential of Late Cretaceous terrestrial to shallow marine sandstones, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Cited by 34 publications

References 25 publications

Perspectives on Cretaceous Gondwana break-up from detrital zircon provenance of southern Zealandia sandstones

Perspectives on Cretaceous Gondwana break-up from detrital zircon provenance of southern Zealandia sandstones

How important is carbonate dissolution in buried sandstones: evidences from petrography, porosity, experiments, and geochemical calculations

A geochemical and biostratigraphic approach to investigating regional changes in sandstone composition through time; an example from Paleocene–Eocene strata, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

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