Date of Award
4-1991
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Geological and Environmental Sciences
First Advisor
Dr. David A. Barnes
Second Advisor
Dr. William Harrison III
Third Advisor
Dr. John Grace
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
The petrographic evolution of authigenic minerals in the St. Peter formation consists of: early marine cement, syndepositional dolomite, quartz overgrowth cement, pervasive dolomite replacement of precursor carbonate, dissolution of framework grains and carbonate cements, and late formation of authigenic chlorite and illite.
Variations in the diagenetic sequence were templated by variations in primary mineralogy related to depositional facies. Early intergranular carbonate cement, common in shelf facies, precluded early quartz cementation. Subsequent dissolution of dolomite and detrital grains may be temporally and chemically related to the precipitation of authigenic clay in dissolution pores. In peritidal facies, pervasive quartz cementation was locally terminated, before complete porosity occlusion, by the precipitation of late, pore-filling, burial dolomite. Subsequent dissolution of this dolomite, along with minor silicate framework grains, also resulted in formation of secondary pores with little late, authigenic clay.
Recommended Citation
Lundgren, Carl E., "Diagenesis in the St. Peter Sandstone, Michigan Basin" (1991). Masters Theses. 985.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/985