7: Compositional and Diagenetic Controls on Brittleness in Organic Siliceous Mudrocks
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Published:January 31, 2020
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Craig D. Hall, 2020. "Compositional and Diagenetic Controls on Brittleness in Organic Siliceous Mudrocks", Mudstone Diagenesis: Research Perspectives for Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Seals, and Source Rocks, Wayne K. Camp, Kitty L. Milliken, Kevin Taylor, Neil Fishman, Paul C. Hackley, Joe H. S. Macquaker
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An evaluation of an integrated data set collected over the past 12 years designed to identify the parameters controlling reservoir quality and production properties in organic, siliceous mudrocks reveals the key diagenetic processes affecting the development of brittleness in siliceous mudrocks. This work was motivated by the failure of early efforts to correlate brittleness to x-ray diffraction (XRD) mineralogy. The outcome of this analysis has been the recognition of two, often overlapping, pathways to brittleness that are determined at the time of deposition by the relative proportions of clay, detrital quartz, and biogenic silica present in the original sediment...
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Mudstone Diagenesis: Research Perspectives for Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Seals, and Source Rocks
GeoRef
- biogenic structures
- brittleness
- Canadian County Oklahoma
- clastic rocks
- clay minerals
- compaction
- Cretaceous
- data bases
- data processing
- depth
- Devonian
- diagenesis
- elastic constants
- framework silicates
- illitization
- Marcellus Shale
- Marshall County West Virginia
- Mesozoic
- Middle Devonian
- Montana
- mudstone
- North America
- Oklahoma
- opal
- opal-A
- opal-CT
- organic compounds
- Paleozoic
- petrography
- Phillips County Montana
- Poisson's ratio
- porosity
- quartz
- reservoir properties
- reservoir rocks
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentary structures
- sheet silicates
- silica
- silica minerals
- silicates
- siliceous composition
- smectite
- thin sections
- United States
- West Virginia
- Western Interior
- Woodford Shale
- X-ray diffraction data
- Young's modulus
- Milk River Shale