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Principal component analysis of textural characteristics of fluvio-lacustrine sandstones and controlling factors of sandstone textures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2021

Dong-Yu Zheng Open the ORCID record for Dong-Yu Zheng [Opens in a new window]  and
Si-Xuan Wu
Dong-Yu Zheng*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610059, China
Si-Xuan Wu
Affiliation:
Geology and Geophysics Program, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, 65409, USA
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Author for correspondence: Dongyu Zheng, Email: dzheng9295@126.com
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Abstract

Textures are important features of sandstones; however, their controlling factors are not fully understood. We present a detailed textural analysis of fluvio-lacustrine sandstones and discuss the influences of provenance and depositional environments on sandstone textures. The upper Permian – lowermost Triassic Wutonggou sandstones in the Bogda Mountains, NW China, are the focus of this study. Sandstone thin-sections were studied by point counting and their textures were analysed using statistical and principal component analysis. Fluvial lithic, fluvial feldspathic, deltaic lithic, deltaic feldspathic, littoral lithic and littoral feldspathic sandstone were classified and compared. These comparisons indicate that lithic and feldspathic sandstones from the same depositional settings have significant differences in graphic mean, graphic standard deviation and roundness; in contrast, sandstones from different depositional settings but with similar compositions have limited differences in textures. Moreover, three principal components (PCs) are recognized to explain 75% of the total variance, of which the first principal component (PC1) can explain 44%. In bivariate plots of the PCs, sandstones can be distinguished by composition where lithic and feldspathic sandstones are placed in different fields of the plots along the axis of PC1. However, sandstones from different depositional settings overlap and show no clear division. These results indicate that provenance, mainly the source lithology, is the most significant controlling factor on sandstone texture, whereas the depositional environment has limited influence. This study improves our understanding of textural characteristics of fluvio-lacustrine sandstones and their controlling factors, and shows the potentiality of principal component analysis in sandstone studies.

Keywords

Sandstone texturefluvio-lacustrinePCAdepositional environmentsprovenanceBogda MountainsNW China
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Original Article
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Geological Magazine , Volume 158 , Issue 10 , October 2021 , pp. 1847 - 1861
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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