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The nature, origin and distribution of authigenic clay minerals from Middle Jurassic Ravenscar and Brent Group sandstones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

J. Kantorowicz
J. Kantorowicz*
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Department of Geology, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, Humberside HU6 7RX
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Abstract

Middle Jurassic sandstones contain a variety of authigenic clay materials. The origin and distribution of these are related to the influence of several factors, principally depositional pore-fluid chemistry, sandbody geometry and the migration of aggressive fluids. Pore-lining illite, pore-lining chlorite and pore-filling vermiform kaolinite in the Ravenscar Group mutually exclude each other because of depositional pore-water chemistry; seawater in the case of the illite, anoxic freshwater in the case of chlorite and oxygenated freshwater in the case of the kaolinite. Blocky pore-filling dickite occurs ubiquitously within the large connected sandbodies. Its origin may be related to the migration of aggressive fluids and its distribution to depositional sandbody geometry. Mixed-layer chlorite-vermiculite also occurs, and is believed to have formed from chlorite during Recent weathering. Similar patterns occur in Ninian Field Brent Group sandstones, although the situation is more complicated (in these sandstones the kandite subgroup minerals are undifferentiated in this paper). Here too, pore-lining illite occurs in marine sandstones and pore-filling vermiform kandites in non-marine sandstones. However, vermiform kandites also occur in the marine sandstones, perhaps due to freshwater-table development following progradation. The more blocky kandites occur in large connected sandbodies. Finally, a second phase of illitization occurs, postdating blocky kandites, perhaps caused by alkaline formation waters. The occurrence of chlorite in the Broom Formation is anomalous and its possible origin is discussed.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , June 1984 , pp. 359 - 375
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1984

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