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GEOSCIE 21 - Sed Petro
GEOSCIE 21 - Sed Petro
GEOLOGY
SEDIMENTARY PETROLOGY
JGS ARCILLA
CLASTIC PETROLOGY
CLASTICS
• DEFINED AS THOSE ROCKS FORMED FROM PRE-EXISTING ROCKS WHOSE CONSTITUENTS
WERE TRANSPORTED BY SOME MECHANISM.
• MOST COMMON SEDIMENTARY ROCKS DRILLED IN THE OILFIELD
• GRAVELS, SANDS AND CLAYS (I.E. CONGLOMERATES, SANDSTONES, SHALES)
CLASTIC TEXTURE
- BASED ON TEXTURE
AND DIVIDES
SANDSTONES IN TO
TWO MAJOR
GROUPS. THAT IS
WHETHER
SANDSTONES ARE
COMPOSED OF ONLY
GRAINS OR WITH
MATRIX.
- ONLY CONCERNED
WITH MINERALOGY
AND
PRESENCE/ABSENCE
OF MATRIX AND NOT
WITH THE
DEPOSITIONAL
ENVIRONMENT
CALCITE CEMENTATION
TYPES
• POIKILOTOPIC CRYSTALS- A TEXTURAL DESIGNATION. DENOTING A SITUATION WHERE A
SMALL CRYSTALS OF CALCIUM CARBONATE ARE IRREGULARLY SCATTERED WITHOUT COMMON
ORIENTATION, IN A LARGER CRYSTAL OF ANOTHER MINERAL.
• OOIDS
• COATED GRAINS
• PELOIDS
• INTRACLASTS
• MICRITE ENVELOPES
• STROMATOLITES
• ONCOLITES
CLASSIFICATION OF LIMESTONES
THREE SYSTEMS
• GRAIN SIZE
• COMPOSITION
• TEXTURE
CLASSIFICATION OF LIMESTONES
CLASSIFICATION OF LIMESTONES
CARBONATE CEMENTATION