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DOLOMITIZATION and LIMESTONE DIAGENESIS

A Symposium

Edited by

LLOYD C PRAY Denver Research Center Marathon Oil Company Littleton Colorado

RAYMOND C MURRAY Shell Development Company Houston Texas

SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC PALEONTOLOGISTS AND MINERALOGISTS

Special Publication No 13

TULSA OKLAHOMA U S A

July 1965

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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS

Reprinted August 1967

Reprin ed June 1973 Reprinted February 1982

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A symposium on the diagenesis of carbonate bonate rock diagenesis and of informal discus rocks was held in Toronto Canada on May 20 sions The program is given below 1964 at the joint meeting of the American Asso Introduction L C Pray ciation of Petroleum Geologists the Geological The Calcite Aragonite Problem W S Fyfe Association of Canada the Mineralogical Asso Discussion R F Schmalz ciation of Canada and the Society of Economic Experimental Consolidation of Carbonate Mud Paleontologists and Mineralogists The technical E C Robertson program consisted of two half day sessions and Discussion J c Hathaway featured nine Diagenesis of Recent Marine Carbonate Sediments major papers on aspects of both dolomitization and limestone diagenesis Subse E G Purdy quent to the Toronto symposium the contribu Discussion K E Chave tors of the major papers and the organizers of Some Aspects of Recrystallization of Ancient Lime the symposium accepted the offer of the Society stones R L Folk of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Diagenesis in Pellet Limestone F W Beales Discussion above Dunham to publish a symposium volume as one of the of two papers R J Special Publication series of that society The Dolomitization of Recent and Plio Pleistocene Sedi ments Marine on Bonaire present volume consists of those seven major pa by Evaporite Waters Netherlands Antilles F Lucia P pers for which manuscripts were available for J speaker K and K S publication near the close of 1964 and the ab Weyl Deffeyes stracts of the other two papers Penecontemporary Dolomitization in the Persian Gulf L V Illing and A Wells The Toronto symposium on diagenesis of car speaker J Formation of Recent Dolomite in Florida and the bonate rocks was organized by Lloyd C Pray Bahamas E A Shinn and R N and Raymond C Murray as a part of the broader speaker program of the Carbonate Rocks Subcommittee Ginsburg of the Research Committee of the American As Discussion of above three papers by J E Adams A C Donaldson and WA Taft sociation of Petroleum Geologists It was pre sented in Facies Diagenesis and Related Reservoir Properties Toronto as a part of the technical ses in sions sponsored by the Society of Economic the Gigas Beds Upper Jurassic North western Paleontologists and Mineralogists The editors Germany V Schmidt Discussion A G Fischer are grateful for the cooperation and counsel of the who contributed many persons to the tech Research on the broad field encompassing the nical sessions of the Toronto Diagenesis Sym diagenesis of carbonate rocks is currently very or to its posium arrangement In particular we active It is not possible in a one day technical wish to the assistance acknowledge of Dr Fran session or in its published equivalent to more cis Beales and Dr Ralph Edie of The Toronto than sample the progress in the field or to in Convention Committee of S EP M and of Dr clude more than a fraction of those scientists Ham of The William Carbonate Rocks Sub who have significant work to report However committee of AA P G The American Associa this symposium volume represents a significant tion of Petroleum Geologists has granted per collection of articles of pertinence to this field mission for of this publication volume Neither the data nor the interpretations can be The program of the Toronto symposium con ignored by serious workers in this rapidly evolv sisted of nine major papers of five minute ing and fascinating facet of carbonate geology discussions prepared of these major papers by LLOYD C PRAY AND RAYMOND C MURRAY other eight geologists well acquainted with car Editors

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PAGE Dolomitization and Limestone Diagenesis An Introduction R C Murray and L C Pray 1 The Calcite Aragonite Problem W S Fyfe and J L Bischoff 3 Some Aspects of Recrystallization in Ancient Limestones R L Folk 14 Diagenesis in Pelletted Limestones F W Beales 49

Dolomitization of Recent and Plio Pleistocene Sediments by Marine Evaporite Waters on Bonaire Netherlands Antilles K S Deffeyes F J Lucia and P K Weyl 71 Penecontemporary Dolomite in the Persian Gulf L V Illing A J Wells and J C M Taylor 89

Recent Supratital Dolomite from Andros Island Bahamas

00 00 M 00 00 00 00 00 ooE A Shinn R N Ginsburg and R Lloyd 112 Facies Diagenesis and Related Reservoir Properties in the Gigas Beds Upper Jurassic North western Germany V Schmidt 124

Abstract Diagenesis of Recent Marine Carbonate Sediments EG Purdy 169

Abstract Experimental Consolidation of Carbonate Mud E C Robertson 170

Contributors 171

Index 175

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