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Wstępne badania diagenezy utworów wapienia muszlowego w północnej części regionu śląsko-krakowskiego (otwór 25-BN Biskupice)

Dymowski Witold

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2023

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Vol. 71, nr 5

274--278

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The paper presents investigation on diagenesis of Muschelkalk carbonates in the 25-BN Biskupice borehole, NE part of the Silesian-Cracow region. A cycle of dissolution and neomorphic alterations has been identified in the dolomites, Fe-dolomites and calcites occurring at the medium and late stages of diagenesis based on the analytical results of petrographic, cathodoluminescence and SEM methods.

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Wpływ więźby skały na mechanizm deformacji : studium przypadku wstęg deformacyjnych w piaskowcach otryckich (Bieszczady)

Strzelecki Piotr Jan, Świerczewska Anna

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2023

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Vol. 71, nr 4

231--234

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Compaction is one of the fundamental modes of strain localization. Pure compaction bands are deformation structures that develop in granular rocks. The Otryt sandstone, a flysch sandstone, hosts naturally formed pure compaction bands that originated due to tectonic shortening. The pure compaction bands formed when the host rock was poorly indurated. The deformation bands are of the disaggregation or cataclastic type, with cataclasis occurring more frequently in coarser-grained sandstones. Additionally, in laminated fine-grained sandstones, disaggregation takes the form of micro-folding. Textural features of the host rock appear to control the microstructural type of pure compaction band.

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Mikrofacje i diageneza wapieni oolitowych najniższego triasu w profilu Gorzów Wielkopolski IG 1 (zachodnia Polska)

Jasionowski Marek, Becker Anna

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2023

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Vol. 71, nr 5

292--297

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Lowermost Triassic oolitic limestones occur in the Gorzów Wielkopolski IG 1 borehole as thin intercalations (mostly less than 1 m thick) within laminated or massive reddish brown mudstones or sandy mudstones of the Baltic and Pomerania formations of the Lowerand Middle Buntsandstein, respectively. In order to characterize the microfacies and diagenesis of the limestones, 46 thin sections from 44 core specimens were investigated. The limestone intercalations are poorly diversified in terms of microfacies, especially in the lower part of the section (Baltic Formation), where almost exclusively fine-grained, well-sorted ooid grainstones occur. The upper part of the section (Pomerania Formation) is more diverse. In addition to grainstones similar to those of the Baltic Formation, coarse-grained and/or poorly sorted ooid grainstones, subordinate stromatolites, oncoid grainstones, and mudstones are present. The limestones are almost completely devoid of bioclasts. The only organic remains present in the thin sections are single rounded plates composed of apatite (possibly fish scales) and, even rarer, snail shells and small shells of other organisms (bivalves?, ostracods?), now dissolved (probably originally aragonitic) and visible only due to the preserved coatings of micritic calcite cement previously precipitated on them. The diagenesis of these deposits has not been very intensive and involves mainly cementation by calcite and subordinately by anhydrite, recrystallization of some ooids and other grains (including carbonate bioclasts), and to alesser extent by dissolution under pressure.

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Depositional environment, geochemistry and diagenetic control of the reservoir quality of the Oligo-Miocene Asmari Formation, a carbonate platform in SW Iran

Omidpour Armin, Moussavi-Harami Reza, Loon van Antonius Johannes, Mahboubi Asadollah, Rahimpour-Bonab Hossain

Geological Quarterly

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2021

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Vol. 65, No. 2

art. no. 27

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The Oligo-Miocene Asmari Formation in SW Iran represents sedimentation on a carbonate platform. Thin-section analysis allowed distinguishing 26 microfacies, which can be grouped into twelve microfacies associations that represent four main depositional environments: open-marine, outer-ramp, middle-ramp and inner-ramp settings. The carbonates have undergone a complex diagenetic history, from penecontemporaneous shallow-marine consolidation to deep-burial diagenesis. The most important processes that affected the carbonates are dolomitization (in different stages), cementation (by anhydrite and calcite), dissolution (fabric-selective and fabric-destructive), fracturing, stylolitization and neomorphism. Minor diagenetic processes that modified the sediments are pyritization, silicification, glauconitization, micritization and bioturbation. Diagenetic processes such as dolomitization, dissolution and fracturing improved the reservoir quality, whereas cementation and compaction have reduced the reservoir quality of the Asmari Formation. Whole-rock oxygen and carbon isotope analyses of limestone samples show that the isotopic composition of the carbonates was hardly affected by diagenesis and that the carbonates remained roughly in isotopic equilibrium with the Paleogene seawater. Some samples have, however, been affected significantly by diagenesis during deep burial in a closed to semi-closed diagenetic system.

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Diagenesis, sequence stratigraphy and reservoir quality of the Carboniferous deposits of the southeastern Lublin Basin (SE Poland)

Kozłowska Aleksandra, Waksmundzka Maria I.

Geological Quarterly

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2020

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Vol. 64, No. 2

422--459

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This study estimates the reservoir properties of the Carboniferous deposits in the southeastern part of the Lublin Basin based on diagenetic and sequence stratigraphic patterns. Depositional sequences distinguished represent the following environments/processes: shallow clay and carbonate shelves, deltaic, fluvial, and hyperconcentrated flow while para-sequences (cyclothems), maximum regression-initial transgression surfaces (T), maximum flooding surfaces (MFS) and also lowstand (LST), transgressive (TST) and highstand (HST) systems tracts have been recognised. Sequences recognized may be linked to the global stratigraphic division of the Carboniferous, thus providing a time framework and environmental context for petrographic and petrophysical examinations. The reservoir properties were found to be clearly controlled by depositional environment, diagenetic history and burial. The best properties were recognized in sandstone lithosomes formed in braided, meandering and anastomosed fluvial channels and hyperconcentrated flows which fill the incised valleys and belong to the LST. They are characterized by good porosity reaching up to 15.1%. The TST and HST deposits are represented chiefly by claystones, mudstones and limestones that formed in a shallow shelf and deltaic environment, being sealing intervals. The diagenetic history of sandstones comprises eo-, meso- and telodiagenetic phases. The major processes acting during the first of these were mechanical compaction, dissolution of mineral grains, formation of predominantly quartz overgrowths around the quartz grains, and crysialiizaton of kaolinite. During mesodiagenesis, cementation with quartz, kaolinite and carbonates continued along with the formation of dickite and fibrous illite; moreover, mineral grains were dissolved and chemical compaction set in. The effects of telodiagenetic processes were feldspar dissolution and precipitation of kaolinite. During diagenesis the maximum temperature affecting the Carboniferous deposits was ~120°C. Compaction and cementation were the main factors responsible for the reduction of porosity by approximately 55 and 38%, respectively. One of the major diagenetic processes was dissolution resulting in the formation of secondary porosity. The Serpukhovian and Bashkirian sandstones from sequence 11 show good reservoir potential, while those from sequences 6, 9, 10, 12-14 only fair potential.

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Warunki temperaturowe w czasie diagenezy piaskowców pensylwanu w rejonie Morza Bałtyckiego

Kozłowska Aleksandra

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2019

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Vol. 67, nr 3

167--168

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The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the temperature conditions in the sediment during the diagenesis history of Pennsylvanian sandstones drilled in three deep boreholes in the Baltic Sea. These sandstones are represented by quartz and sublithic arenites and wackes, cemented by matrix and autigenic minerals. Among the autigenic minerals: quartz, clay minerals (kaolinite, dickite, illite) and carbonates (calcite, dolomite, ankerite) are the temperature indicators. The presence of dickite in the sediments indicates a temperature of about 120°C. Quartz and carbonate crystallization temperatures, based on the analysis of fluid inclusions, are estimated to be in the range of 70-180°C. The K/Ar age of the fibrous illite thatforms at the final stage of diagenesis (above 100° C), was determined at 262 ±2 to 247 ±4 My, i.e. from the Middle Permian to the Early Triassic. It determines a length of the post-deposition period, when the deposits were permeable for pore fluids.

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Porównanie petrografii i diagenezy piaskowców karpackich z różnych jednostek litostratygraficznych

Leśniak Grzegorz

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2019

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Vol. 67, nr 3

175--178

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Petrographic research was carried out on 549 thin sections representing Carpathian sandstones of the Lower Cretaceous to Miocene sediments from the Silesian and Skole units (east of Gorlice town). They represented the Lgota, Spass, Inoceramian, Stryj, Istebna, Jamna, Ciężkowice, Menilite, Polanica, Boryslav, Kliwa, and Krosno sandstones. The first goal of the study was to determine the composition of rockframework as well as the types, quantities and distribution of cements. The granulometric composition of sandstones is very diversified, varying from very fine-grained (similar to mudstones) to fine-grained or coarse-grained sandstones. Sorting of detrital grains is rather poor. Only fine-grained sandstones exhibit the better sorting. The investigated rocks can be described as arenites and wackes, sublitharenites, lithoarenites, subarkoses and arkoses. In the next step of research, analyses of diagenetic processes and their influence on the change ofporosity were also carried out. Results of the study of rock framework composition and the type and amount of cements allowed me to compare similarities and differences of the Carpathian sandstones from various lithostratigraphic units.

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The impact of fossils on diagenetically controlled reservoir quality : the Zechstein Brońsko Reef

Fheed Adam

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2019

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Vol. 89, No. 1

47--81

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Although the sedimentation and diagenesis of the Polish Zechstein Limestone strata (Ca1, Permian) already have been investigated, relatively little has been done to resolve their petrophysical potential. Therefore, the gap between sedimentological and petrophysical studies was bridged through an integrated analysis of geological and geophysical data. The results of core description, polarized-light microscopy, well log interpretations and laboratory measurements on core samples were combined with previously published nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and X-ray microtomography (μCT) data, especially helpful in the recognition of pore geometry. The Ca1 strata of the Brońsko-1 and Brońsko-2 wells, located on the Zechstein Brońsko Reef (West Poland), were studied to determine the influence of fossils on porosity and permeability. It was concluded that greater diversification of the original biota led to an increase in porosity and variation in pore geometry. While encrusting organisms such as foraminifers promoted the development of channel and fracture porosity, the dissolution of the primarily aragonitic bivalve and gastropod shells and the shells of terebratulid brachiopods often gave rise to the formation of cavernous and mouldic porosity. The channels appear to be most common in the bryozoan-foraminifer biofacies, representing a shallowing of the depositional environment. Caverns, in turn, corresponded to the organisms of the brachiopod-bryozoan and the lightly karstified bivalve-gastropod biofacies, both of which probably experienced the influence of sabkha conditions, leading to a general decrease in porosity. The bryozoan zoecia tended to enhance both primary intraparticle voids, and after their dissolution, secondary intraparticle pores, which showed limited connectivity in the high-energy Acanthocladia biofacies, where considerable fragmentation of fossils took place, hence decreasing the permeability. Anhydrite cementation was found to be the most pronounced factor controlling porosity destruction, while dolomitization enhanced it significantly, especially for the stromatolitic biofacies, where small, unconnected vugs were formed owing to this process. The permeability is typically below 100 mD, and this is caused by the rich diagenetic history of the reef, that recorded marine, sabkha-related and burial cementation, now represented by the different fabrics of anhydrite, calcite, and dolomite.

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Skały syderytowe jury środkowej Kujaw : studium petrologiczne

Maliszewska A., Kozłowska A., Kuberska M.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2018

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Vol. 66, nr 4

240--251

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The paper presents the results of new mineralogical and petrographic analyses of Middle Jurassic sideritic rocks in the Kujawy area. The scope of the research has been extended to the Ciechocinek-Brześć Kujawski-Wojszyce zone, where clayey and sandy siderites and sideritic coquina form only inserts in siliciclastic rocks. Early diagenetic sideroplesite and mesodiagenetic sideroplesite, Fe-dolomite, ankerite, pistomestite and calcite occur among carbonate minerals. They are accompanied by an early diagenetic green mineral called chamosite and identified as berthierine in the XRD analysis. The richest mineral composition occurs in the sideritic coquina containing various shell elements, often also ooids. It is suggested that the formation of the coquina in the Klodawa-Łęczyca anticline area was caused by saline movements of the Cimmerian orogeny. The start-up and blending of salt masses and the rockfracture contributed to the intensive circulation of mineralizing solutions and the development of diagenetic processes, especially the replacement of unstable components and the cementation of Jurassic sediments throughout the Kujawy area.

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Solution-collapse breccias in the upper Olenekian–Ladinian succession, Tatra Mts, Poland

Jaglarz P., Rychliński T.

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2018

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Vol. 88, No. 4

303--319

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The upper Olenekian-Middle Triassic succession of the Tatricum domain (Central Western Carpathians, southern Poland) includes a few horizons of breccias, which are intercalated with early-diagenetic dolostones. On the basis of macroscopic and microscopic (including cathodoluminescence) observations, the paper presents a new interpretation of the genesis of the breccias and their diagenetic history. The rocks studied range from monomictic, cemented mosaic packbreccias to chaotic, unsorted, monomictic, particulate rubble floatbreccias. The processes that preceded the formation of the breccias encompassed the precipitation of evaporites and the early-diagenetic dolomitization of lime muds. The solution-collapse breccias were formed during episodes of cyclic sediment emersions in the upper Olenekian and Middle Triassic, as the result of gradual sediment collapse after karstic dissolution of the intercalated evaporites. After the brecciation process, during diagenesis the rocks were subjected to cementation by sulphate minerals and next, to multi-stage dolomitization. Later tectonic processes led to fracturing and even re-brecciation of the previously formed solution-collapse breccias.

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Skały permu dolnego (czerwonego spągowca) zachodniej Polski : monografia petrograficzna

Maliszewska A., Jackowicz E., Kuberska M., Kiersnowski H.

Prace Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego

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2016

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T. 204

5--115

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Praca zawiera wyniki interdyscyplinarnych badań petrologicznych skał czerwonego spągowca, występujących na obszarze zachodniej części Niżu Polskiego. Materiał badawczy pochodził z rdzeni głębokich otworów wiertniczych Polskiego Górnictwa Naftowego i Gazownictwa oraz Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego – Państwowego Instytutu Badawczego. W zachodniej części Niżu Polskiego na kompleks litologiczny czerwonego spągowca dolnego składają się głównie skały wulkaniczne, subwulkaniczne i wulkanogeniczne, obejmujące nierozdzielone utwory piroklastyczno-epiklastyczne i epiklastyczno-piroklastyczne. Mniej licznie występują skały epiklastyczne, w których dość pospolite są składniki pochodzenia wulkanicznego. Na obszarze monokliny przedsudeckiej i jej północnego obrzeżenia kompleksy wulkaniczne składają się głównie z andezytów i trachyandezytów, w mniejszej ilości z ryolitów, dacytów, trachitów, a tylko lokalnie z bazaltów. Miejscami występują tu kwaśne skały piroklastyczne, lecz objętościowo ustępują one miejsca skałom subwulkanicznym – mikrodiorytom, gabrom, mikromonzonitom, mikrogranitom, granitom i sjenitom. Do rzadkości należą utwory piroklastyczne o charakterze obojętnym. Na obszarze Pomorza serię wulkaniczną reprezentują przede wszystkim ryolity i dacyty, a podrzędnie – trachyandezyty, andezyty i trachity. Dość często występują tu kwaśne skały piroklastyczne, lecz ze względu na raczej niewielkie miąższości ich sumaryczny udział objętościowy jest niewielki. Skały subwulkaniczne mają zazwyczaj skład mikrodiorytu i mikromonzonitu. Wiek posadowienia skał wulkanicznych wynosi 293,0 (±2,0) - 307,9 (±4,6) mln lat, natomiast wiek ich anatektycznego składnika wykazuje dwa maksima: 800-1100 i 1500-1600 mln lat. Pokrywy wulkaniczne z zachodniej Polski uległy głębokim, wielokrotnym przemianom, które spowodowały przeobrażenia minerałów pierwotnych i szkliwa oraz wypełnienie pęcherzyków pogazowych minerałami wtórnymi. Pierwszy etap przeobrażeń wiązał się z działalnością ekshalacji wulkanicznych i gorących źródeł, drugi etap – z cyrkulacją ciepłych wód porowych podczas postępującego pogrzebania, aż do osiągnięcia warunków metamorfizmu bardzo niskiego stopnia w trzecim etapie przemian. Zawartość pierwiastków niedopasowanych oraz zmienność lateralna i wertykalna wskaźników geochemicznych sugeruje, że skały andezytowo-trachyandezytowo-bazaltowe wywodzą się z komór magmowych usytuowanych w górnym płaszczu, a w ewolucji składu ich stopów istotną rolę pełniła intensywność wytapiania źródła i kontaminacja magm materiałem skorupy kontynentalnej, o zróżnicowanej regionalnie litologii. Środowisko tektoniczne generacji magm określono jako wewnątrzpłytowe, lokalnie z cechami kontynentalnego łuku wysp. Podobne wyniki dała dyskryminacja środowiska tektonomagmowego skał kwaśnych, reprezentujących w zmiennym stopniu wytopiony materiał skorupy kontynentalnej o zróżnicowanym lateralnie składzie, poza niektórymi dacytami, będącymi najprawdopodobniej dyferencjałami magm obojętnych. Skały określane jako „wulkanogeniczne” występują przeważnie w kompleksach fluwialnych, rzadziej jeziornych, wśród osadów stożków aluwialnych i równi aluwialnej oraz spływów rumoszu (Kiersnowski, 2003b). Wyróżniono tu litofacje: lapillową, aglomeratowo-lapillową oraz grubo- i drobnopopiołową. Osadowe skały epiklastyczne czerwonego spągowca dolnego są reprezentowane głównie przez piaskowce i zlepieńce, w mniejszym stopniu przez mułowce i iłowce. Skały złożone głównie z ziaren frakcji psamitowej i psefitowej, oprócz kwarcu, zawierają liczne klasty pochodzenia wulkanicznego. Ich spoiwo zawiera minerały ilaste, wodorotlenki żelaza, miejscami także kalcyt, kwarc autigeniczny i anhydryt. Ze zróżnicowania wskaźników geochemicznych skał wulkanogenicznych wynika, że tworzące je osady podczas transportu ulegały frakcjonowaniu związanym z degradacją ziarna i wzbogaceniem w klasty terygeniczne, a po depozycji były w stanie jeszcze stosunkowo świeżym. Sugeruje to, że zarówno dezintegracja ich skał macierzystych, jak i transport miały charakter mechaniczny (erupcje freatomagmowe, a następnie lawiny gruzowe, lahary lub osuwiska wulkaniczne). Środowiska tektoniczne depozycji utworów wulkanogenicznych określono jako aktywną krawędź kontynentalną oraz kontynentalny łuk wysp. Osady czerwonego spągowca górnego są głównie reprezentowane przez różnorodne utwory fluwialne i eoliczne, w części także przez jeziorne utwory plai (Kiersnowski, 1998). Miejscami (w przystropowych odcinkach profilów czerwonego spągowca) występują osady brzegowej strefy płytkiego morza, określane jako biały lub szary spągowiec. Charakterystyczną cechą skał litofacji zlepieńcowej czerwonego spągowca jest znaczna ilość okruchów skał wulkanicznych, które niemal zawsze dominują nad klastami skał osadowych. Zlepieńce oligomiktyczne, złożone z litoklastów osadowych pojawiają się miejscami, głównie na Pomorzu. Litofacja piaskowcowa jest reprezentowana przez arenity i waki kwarcowe oraz sublityczne. Wśród piaskowców eolicznych bardzo licznie występują arenity i waki subarkozowe. Najlepsze właściwości zbiornikowe stwierdzono wśród piaskowców eolicznych, zwłaszcza wydmowych, a najgorsze – w osadach plai (Darłak i in., 1998). W spoiwie piaskowców oprócz matriksu występują liczne składniki ortochemiczne, takie jak: minerały węglanowe, kwarc autigeniczny, anhydryt, chloryty, illit i kaolinit. Oznaczenia wieku K-Ar illitu i δ18O wykazały, że krystalizował on z zasolonych wód porowych, w przedziale 113,6-187,1 mln lat (głównie wczesna i środkowa jura). Oznaczenia δ18O w cementach kalcytowych i dolomitowych wskazują na związek ich wód krystalizacyjnych z wodami zasolonymi, częściowo mieszanymi ze słodkimi. Na obecne wykształcenie litologiczne osadów czerwonego spągowca olbrzymi wpływ miały procesy diagenetyczne, zwłaszcza kompakcja i cementacja. Na rozwój właściwości zbiornikowych skał największy wpływ miało rozpuszczanie diagenetyczne, prowadzące do wytwarzania wtórnej porowatości w obrębie szkieletu ziarnowego i cementów. Z kolei rozwój diagenetycznego illitu, tworzącego włókniste struktury typu sieci, ograniczał zdolności filtracyjne osadów. Większość wymienionych procesów postsedymentacyjnych miała miejsce na etapie mezodiagenezy.

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The paper presents the results of interdisciplinary petrologic research of Rotliegend rocks from the western part of the Polish Lowlands. The research material comes from cores of deep boreholes drilled by the Polish Oil and Gas Company and the Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute. In the western part of the Polish Lowlands, the Lower Rotliegend lithologic complex consists mainly of volcanic, subvolcanic and volcanogenic rocks represented by undivided pyroclastic-epiclastic and epiclastic-pyroclastic rocks. Less abundant are epiclastic rocks containing fairly common constituents of volcanic origin. In the Fore-Sudetic Monocline and its northern margin, the volcanic complexes consist mainly of andesites and trachyandesites with minor proportions of rhyolites, dacites, trachytes and local basalts. Relatively common are acidic pyroclastic rocks, but they are minor in volume as compared to subvolcanic rocks - microdiorites, micromonzonites, microgranites, granites and syenites. Pyroclastic rocks of intermediate composition are rare. In Pomerania, the volcanic series is represented mainly by rhyolites and dacites with subordinate trachyandesites, andesites and trachytes. Acidic pyroclastic rocks are relatively abundant, but their total volume proportion is small because of their small thicknesses Subvolcanic rocks usually have a composition of microdiorite, gabbro and micromonzonite. The emplacement ages of volcanic rocks were from 293.0 (±2.0) to 307.9 (±4.6) million years. Inherited ages of their anatectic component display two maxima: 800-1100 and 1500-1600 million years. The volcanic covers of western Poland have undergone strong multiple alterations that resulted in the transformation of primary minerals and volcanic glass, and in the filling of gas bubbles with secondary minerals. The first stage of alterations was associated with the activity of volcanic exhalations and hot springs, the second stage - with the circulation of warm pore waters during progressive burial until the conditions of very lowgrade metamorphism in the third stage of alterations. The content of incompatible elements as well as lateral and vertical variations of geochemical indexes suggest that the andesite-trachyandesite-basaltic rocks are derived from magma chambers in the upper mantle, and the intensity of source melting and contamination of magmas by continental crust material of regionally variable lithology played an important role in the evolution of the composition of their melts. Tectonic setting of magma generations has been defined as intraplate, locally with the characteristics of continental island arc Similar results were obtained by the discrimination of tectonomagmatic setting of acidic rocks, representing variably melted continental crust material of laterally varied compositions, which most likely represents differentiates of intermediate magmas, except for some dacites. Rocks referred to as “volcanogenic” occur mostly in fluvial complexes, more rarely in lacustrine ones, among deposits of alluvial fans, alluvial plain and debris flows (Kiersnowski, 2003). The lapilli, agglomerate-lapilli, coarse-ash and fine-ash lithofacies have been distinguished here. Lower Rotliegend sedimentary epiclastic rocks are represented mainly by sandstones and conglomerates, with minor siltstones and claystones. Rocks consisting primarily of psammitic and psephitic grains contain quartz and numerous clasts of volcanic origin. The cement contains clay minerals, iron hydroxides, locally calcite, quartz and authigenic anhydrite. The diversity of geochemical indexes of volcanogenic rocks indicates that these deposits underwent fractionation during transport, associated with the degradation of grains and enrichment in terrigenous clasts. After deposition they were still relatively fresh. It suggests that both the disintegration of the parent rocks and the transport were mechanical in nature (phreatomagmatic eruptions followed by debris flows, lahars or volcanic landslides). Tectonic settings of volcanogenic deposition have been determined as an active continental margin and a continental island arc. The Upper Rotliegend rocks are represented mainly by a variety of fluvial and aeolian deposits, in part also by lacustrine playa sediments (Kiersnowski, 1998). In some places (near-top Rotliegend sections), there are shallow-marine, nearshore deposits, referred to as the Weissliegend. A characteristic feature of the Rotliegend conglomerate lithofacies is a considerable amount of fragments of volcanic rocks, which usually dominate over clasts of sedimentary rocks Oligomictic conglomerates composed of lithoclasts of sedimentary rocks are locally observed mainly in Pomerania. The sandstone lithofacies is represented by arenites as well as quartz and sublithic wackes. Among the aeolian sandstones, very numerous are arenites and subarkosic wackes. The best reservoir properties are found among aeolian sandstones, particularly of dunes, and the worst properties are typical of playa sediments (Darłak et al., 1998). In addition to the matrix, the sandstones also contain numerous ortochemical constituents, such as carbonate minerals, authigenic quartz, anhydrite, chlorite, illite and kaolinite. Age determinations (K-Ar of illite and δ18O) show that illite crystallized 113.6-187.1 million years ago (mainly the Early and Middle Jurassic) from saline pore waters. The δ18O determinations in calcite and dolomite cements show the relationship of their crystallization waters with saline waters, partly mixed with fresh waters. The present lithology of the Rotliegend deposits is mainly the result of diagenetic processes, especially compaction and cementation. Reservoir properties of the rocks developed primarily due to diagenetic dissolution that led to the production of secondary porosity within the grain framework and cements. The development of diagenetic illite, forming fibrous structures of network type, reduced the permeability of the sediments. Most of these post-sedimentary processes took place during mesodiagenesis.

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Sulfur isotope patterns of iron sulfide and barite nodules in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk of England and their regional significance in the origin of coloured chalks

Jeans C. V., Turchyn A. V., Hu X.-F.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2016

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Vol. 66, no. 2

227--256

EN

The relationship between the development of iron sulfide and barite nodules in the Cenomanian Chalk of England and the presence of a red hematitic pigment has been investigated using sulfur isotopes. In southern England where red and pink chalks are absent, iron sulfide nodules are widespread. Two typical large iron sulfide nodules exhibit δ34S ranging from -48.6‰ at their core to -32.6‰ at their outer margins. In eastern England, where red and pink chalks occur in three main bands, there is an antipathetic relationship between the coloured chalks and the occurrence of iron sulfide or barite nodules. Here iron sulfide, or its oxidised remnants, are restricted to two situations: (1) in association with hard grounds that developed originally in chalks that contained the hematite pigment or its postulated precursor FeOH3, or (2) in regional sulfidization zones that cut across the stratigraphy. In the Cenomanian Chalk exposed in the cliffs at Speeton, Yorkshire, pyrite and marcasite (both iron sulfide) nodules range in δ34S from -34.7‰ to +40.0‰. In the lower part of the section δ34S vary from -34.8‰ to +7.8‰, a single barite nodule has δ34S between +26.9‰ and +29.9‰. In the middle part of the section δ34S ranges from +23.8‰ to +40.0‰. In the sulfidization zones that cut across the Cenomanian Chalk of Lincolnshire the iron sulfide nodules are typically heavily weathered but these may contain patches of unoxidised pyrite. In these zones, δ34S ranges from -32.9‰ to +7.9‰. The cross-cutting zones of sulfidization in eastern England are linked to three basement faults – the Flamborough Head Fault Zone, the Caistor Fault and the postulated Wash Line of Jeans (1980) – that have affected the deposition of the Chalk. It is argued that these faults have been both the conduits by which allochthonous fluids – rich in hydrogen sulfide/sulfate, hydrocarbons and possibly charged with sulfate-reducing bacteria – have penetrated the Cenomanian Chalk as the result of movement during the Late Cretaceous or Cenozoic. These invasive fluids are associated with (1) the reduction of the red hematite pigment or its praecursor, (2) the subsequent development of both iron sulfides and barite, and (3) the loss of overpressure in the Cenomanian Chalk and its late diagenetic hardening by anoxic cementation. Evidence is reviewed for the origin of the red hematite pigment of the coloured chalks and for the iron involved in the development of iron sulfides, a hydrothermal or volcanogenic origin is favoured.

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Analiza petrograficzna surowców skalnych za pomocą katodoluminescencji na przykładzie piaskowców cergowskich (Karpaty zewnętrzne)

Pszonka J.

Zeszyty Naukowe Instytutu Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi i Energią PAN

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2015

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nr 89

5--18

PL

W artykule scharakteryzowano zjawisko katodoluminescencji, jego zastosowanie w petrologii oraz główne cele analizy obrazu i widm katodoluminescencyjnych: identyfikcję pierwiastków śladowych w minerałach i identyfikację natury defektów oraz genetycznych warunków minerałów. Następnie przedstawiono wyniki badań laboratoryjnych przy użyciu katodoluminescencji z tzw. zimną katodą. Badania z wykorzystaniem katodoluminescencji służą określeniu pierwotnych cech tekstualnych (wielkość ziaren, upakowanie, obtoczenie, kontakty międzygranularne) i identyfikacji struktur wewnętrznych składników (przemiany mineralne, zonacja), które w przypadku piaskowców cergowskich pozwoliły na zaproponowanie kilku wniosków: a) Na podstawie intensywności i koloru luminescencji wyróżniono trzy generacje cementu węglanowego. Tego typu wyróżnienia nie umożliwiają inne metody. b) Na podstawie wzajemnych relacji geometrycznych wyróżnionych generacji cementu oraz charakterystycznych dla nich cech zaproponowano najbardziej prawdopodobną sekwencję rozwoju diagenezy cementu. c) Przy pomocy katodoluminescencji bardzo wyraźnie zobrazowano proces zastępowania skaleni przez cement węglanowy, co w znacznym stopniu wyjaśnia wyjątkowo wysokie parametry technologiczne piaskowców cergowskich. Przeprowadzone badania oraz wyciągnięte wnioski pokazują duże, często niezastąpione możliwości badawcze katodoluminescencji z zimną katodą i jednocześnie podkreślają, że metoda ta powinna być uzupełniana badaniami geochemicznymi identyfikującymi skład chemiczny minerałów, np. za pomocą elektronowego mikroskopu skaningowego (SEM).

EN

The article describes the phenomenon of cathodoluminescence, its use in petrology and the main aims of image and cathodoluminecence spectra analysis: identification of trace elements in minerals, the nature of defects and conditions of their origin. This publication is related to laboratory studies with catchodoluminescence (CL) with cold cathode. Cathodoluminescence studies were used to identify the primary textural features and the internal structures of component grains of the Cergowa sandstones. The following conclusions were drawn on this basis: a) several generations of carbonate cements have been detected none of which is visible under the polarizing microscope, b) the most probable sequence of carbonate cement generations is proposed on the basis of their geometric relationships, c) partial or total replacement of feldspar grains by calcite is a common diagenetic phenomenon in the Cergowa sandstones and resulted in very strong cementation of detrital components, which is manifested by their high hardness and resistance. This study also emphasizes that it is difficult to determine the nature of diagenetic changes by means of cold cathode CL without additional studies that would reveal the chemical composition of minerals, e.g. by the scanning electron microscope (SEM).

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Zróżnicowanie jakości kopaliny jako efekt warunków depozycji i przemian diagenetycznych osadu oraz procesów wietrzenia skały na przykładzie piaskowców magurskich ze złoża Osielec

Rembiś M.

Górnictwo Odkrywkowe

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2015

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R. 56, nr 2

118--125

PL

Artykuł dotyczy piaskowców ogniwa popradzkiego, które odsłaniają się w złożu „Osielec” położonym w raczańskiej strefie facjalno-tektonicznej płaszczowiny magurskiej w polskich Karpatach fliszowych. Na podstawie wykonanych badań stwierdzono, że zróżnicowane warunki transportu i depozycji materiału detrytycznego doprowadziły do nagromadzenia osadów charakterystycznych dla subfacji piaskowców masywnych (mS) i uziarnionych frakcjonalnie (gS). Zdeponowany materiał podlegał intensywnym przemianom diagenetycznym, głównie procesom cementacji węglanowej i krzemionkowej, kształtującym fizyczno-mechaniczne właściwości piaskowców, które zmodyfikowane zostały przez późniejsze zjawiska wietrzeniowe. Przy pomocy statystycznego modelu określono wpływ procesów diagenetycznej cementacji na właściwości techniczne piaskowców. Ze względu na różny stopień nasilenia zjawiska wietrzenia składników mineralnych, piaskowce obu subfacji podzielone zostały na trzy grupy reprezentujące kolejne fazy wietrzenia. Stwierdzono, że różnią się one między sobą także wartościami fizyczno-mechanicznych parametrów. Współwystępowanie w profilu złoża różnych odmian facjalnych kopaliny, reprezentujących różny stopień zwietrzenia powoduje, że uzyskiwany surowiec wykazuje zmienną jakość, uzależnioną od miejsca prowadzonej eksploatacji.

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Sandstones of the Poprad member occur in the Osielec deposit located within the Racza facies-tectonic zone (Magura Series) of the Polish Flysch Carpathians. Varying conditions of transport and deposition of their detrital material resulted in the development of sediments belonging to two subfacies: the massive sandstones (mS) and the sandstones with graded bedding (gS). The material deposed underwent intensive diagenesis, including mainly its cementing with carbonates and silica, responsible for physical and mechanical properties of the rocks, but finally modified by weathering. Applying a statistical model, an impact of diagenetic cementation on the technical properties of the sandstones has been established. Considering the variable extent of the weathering processes, the sandstones of both subfacies have been further divided into three groups depending on differing alterations of their mineral components. Thus, the groups also differ in their physical and mechanical properties. As a result, the stone products have variable technical properties, strongly dependent on the place of their quarrying within the deposit.

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The isolated Wuchiapingian (Zechstein) Wielichowo Reef and its sedimentary and diagenetic evolution, SW Poland

Fheed A., Świerczewska A. T., Krzyżak A.T.

Geological Quarterly

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2015

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Vol. 59, No. 4

762--780

EN

The development of a relatively small and isolated part of the Wuchiapingian, Zechstein Wielichowo Reef was possible owing to a progressive subsidence and frequent sea level fluctuations. Three biofacies were distinguished within the studied object: (1) a shallow-water and highly energetic Acanthocladia biofacies, dominated by bryozoans and crinoids, with poorly preserved porosity, reduced mainly by calcite cementation and compaction; (2) the Horridonia biofacies comprising numerous brachiopods, preferring a moderate depth of water, with comparably poor porosity; and (3) the Fenestella/Kingopora biofacies rich in fossils of the highest variability, related to the deepest and calmest waters, occurring on the top of the profile and showing a significant effective porosity, reaching almost 13%. Among many diagenetic processes altering the reef, several lines of evidence suggest that it was the meteoric diagenesis to enhance its porosity the most extensively. Since no stromatolites are present, the final sea level decrease is interpreted to be rapid, hence creating conditions favourable for the meteoric dissolution. Some intraparticle porosity, however, seems to be of a depositional origin.

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Formation conditions and diagenetic evolution of Sand Roses in clastic sabkhas along the Arabian Gulf Coastal Region, Eastern Saudi Arabia

Al-Hussaini A., Koeshidayatullah A., Al-Ramadan K.

Geological Quarterly

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2015

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Vol. 59, No. 1

71--78

EN

This field, petrographic and geochemical study aims at constraining the formation and diagenetic evolution of sand roses (desert roses) in interdune sabkhas in Eastern Saudi Arabia. These “roses”, which are mainly cemented by gypsum, carbonate, and clay minerals, occur as disc-shaped and spherical flower-like crystals. Sands, within the sand roses, are moderately-sorted, medium-grained, and sub-arkosic. Gypsum typically exceeds 20% of the volume of the roses, and locally gypsum is partly transformed to anhydrite. In addition to gypsum and anhydrite, early diagenetic modifications include precipitation of grain coating clay, dissolution of unstable grains (e.g., feldspar grains), and weak mechanical compaction. Iron oxide cement was formed when the sand roses exposed to the surface. The XRD and petrographic data indicate an increase in amounts of gypsum cement from the water table upward towards the sabkha surface. The sand roses also are larger and lighter in colour away from the water table. This study is expected to provide a better understanding of the mode of sand roses formation in the interdunes areas, as well as the diagenetic alterations in both phreatic and vadose zones.

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Characteristics of diagenesis, isotopic relations and reservoir properties of the Middle Miocene sandstones in the Carpathian Foredeep (Poland and Ukraine)

Jarmołowicz-Szulc K., Kozłowska A., Kuberska M.

Geological Quarterly

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2015

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Vol. 59, No. 4

750--761

EN

The Upper Badenian and Sarmatian sandstones recognized from boreholes in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine are very fine to medium-grained subarkosic and sublithic arenites and wackes. The deposits underwent diagenesis well below 100°C, and their evolutionary pathways of diagenetic and related reservoir properties represent eo- and mesodiagenesis. Eodiagenesis here comprised mechanical compaction, development of chlorite, microcrystalline calcite, pyrite, siderite, kaolinite and quartz, and dissolution of feldspar and mica grains. Mesodiagenesis included quartz and K-feldspar overgrowths, albitisation, crystallisation of dolomite and ankerite and coarsely crystalline calcite, dissolution of feldspar grains and carbonate cement, and illite growth. The isotopic data of δ18OVPDB of carbonate cements suggest their crystallisation from porewater which is a mixture of marine and meteoric waters. The δ13CVPDB values suggest derivation of carbon from microbial methanogenesis of organic matter. The 87Sr/86Sr values in coarsely crystalline calcite are higher than those of Badenian seawater. The radiogenic strontium may have been supplied during diagenesis by meteoric waters draining the continental area. The Middle Miocene sandstones show better filtration abilities (good and very good) in the western part of the study area (Poland) than in the east. Primary intergranular porosity is more frequent than secondary intragranular and intercrystalline porosities.The primary porosity was diminished due to compaction and cementation from west to east. Some increase in porosity was caused by dissolution of detrital grains and by decay of soft parts of organisms.

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Redox conditions in the Late Cretaceous Chalk Sea: the possible use of cerium anomalies as palaeoredox indicators in the Cenomanian and Turonian Chalk of England

Jeans C. V., Wray D. S., Williams C. T.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2015

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Vol. 65, no. 3

345--366

EN

The cerium anomalies preserved in the Chalk have been investigated as possible palaeoredox indicators of the Late Cretaceous Sea and its sediment. This has been based upon over a hundred new rare earth element analyses of selected samples and grain size fractions from the Chalk. Particular attention has been given to the methodology of differentiating between the cerium anomalies preserved in the bioclastic calcite and those in carbonate-fluorapatite preserved in the acetic acid insoluble residues of chalks. Variations in the cerium anomaly of different particle size fractions of uncemented chalks suggest that fractionation of rare earth elements between the Chalk’s seawater and the various organisms that contributed skeletal material to the bioclastic calcite of the Chalk may have occurred. Post-depositional processes of calcite cementation and late diagenetic sulphidisation have had no apparent effect on the cerium anomaly of the acetic acid insoluble residues. The cerium anomalies associated with the acetic acid insoluble residues from (1) an alternating sequence of chalks and marls from Ballard Cliff (Dorset, UK) typical of Milankovitch cyclicity show a marked diagenetic pattern, whereas those from (2) non-volcanic and volcanic marls display a pattern that is best explained by the variations in the availability of phosphorus and the timing of argillisation of volcanic glass during diagenesis. The general conclusion is drawn that the cerium anomalies preserved in the Chalk can provide an insight into the changing palaeoredox conditions in the Late Cretaceous Sea as well as in the pore fluids of its sediments.

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Zbigniew Sujkowski – uczony i żołnierz

Miecznik J. B.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2014

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Vol. 62, nr 5

234--239

EN

Zbigniew Sujkowski was a co-founder of Polish sedimentary petrography and a pioneer of sedimentology. After studying geology at the University of Warsaw (1921–1925), he worked in 1927–1929 with Prof. Lucien Cayeux at Collège de France in Paris. He specialized in petrographic-sedimentological studies of Cretaceous deposits in Poland, but especially of siliceous rocks. His treatise on diagenesis, published posthumously in 1958, is among the classics of world geological literature. Zbigniew Sujkowski was a Polish patriot. In the period 1914–1920, he participated in the armed struggle for the independence of Poland, and during World War II – in the armed resistance movement against German occupation as the organizer of subversion. At the end of the war, he was in London; his return to Poland was impossible from political reasons. Sujkowski immigrated to Canada and took a job at MacMaster University in Hamilton. He died tragically in an accident.

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Polyphase dolomitization of the Wuchiapingian Zechstein Limestone (Ca1) isolated reefs (Wolsztyn Palaeo-Ridge, Fore-Sudetic Monocline, SW Poland)

Jasionowski M., Peryt T. M., Durakiewicz T.

Geological Quarterly

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2014

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Vol. 58, No. 3

503--520

EN

Dolomitisation was the main diagenetic process in the Upper Permian Zechstein Limestone of the Wolsztyn High-dolomite cementation (“over-dolomitisation”) also occurred. The rocks studied usually have a mixed mineralogy and represent a continuous spectrum from pure limestone to pure dolomite. This is due to varying degrees of dolomitisation, dolomite cementation and dedolomitisation. There are two main types of dolomite: replacement dolomite (mostly planar unimodal dolosparite mosaics that are mainly fabric-destructive) and cement dolomite (planar isopachous rims and pore-filling non-planar saddle-dolomite crystals). The timing of dolomitisation and dolomite cementation is difficult to ascertain, but comparing petrographical and geochemical data indicates that the reef carbonates were dolomitised shortly after deposition in a near-surface sabkha/seepage-reflux and then in burial systems. It seems that many of the dolomites gain their present isotopic composition when buried in relatively high-temperature conditions, as shown by low oxygen isotopic ratios ( δ18O as low as –9‰ PDB) and the presence of saddle dolomite. No isotopic support for a water-mixing mechanism is documented.