Sandstone provenance

Owen M. R. (1991) Application of cathodoluminescence to sandstone provenance. In Luminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy Quantitative and Qualitative Applications (eds. C. E. Barker and O. C. Kopp). SEPM, Tulsa, OK, Short Course vol. 25, pp. 67 -75. 

Armstrong-Altrin, J.S., Yong, I.L., Verma, S.P., Ramasamy, S. 2004. Geochemistry of sandstones from the Upper Miocene kudankulam formation, southern india implications for provenance, weathering, and tectonic setting. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 74, 285-297. 

Asiedu, D.K., Suzuki, S., Shibata, T. 2000. Provenance of sandstones from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group, Inner Zone of Southwest Japan. Sedimentary Geology, 131, 9-24. 

Dickinson, W.R. et al. 1983. Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstone in... 

Roser, B.P. Korsch, R.J. 1988. Provenance signatures of sandstone-mudstone suites determined using discriminant function analysis of major-element data. Chemical Geology, 67, 119-139. 

Chuhan F. A., Bjprlykke K., andLowrey C. (2000a) The role of provenance in illitization of deeply buried reservoir sandstones form Haltenbanken and north Viking Graben, offshore Norway. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 17, 673-689. 

Milliken K. L. (1988) Loss of provenance information through subsurface diagenesis in Plio-Pleistocene sandstones. Gulf of Mexico. J. Sedim. Petrol. 58, 992-1002. 

A similar provenance control relates also the sandstone petrology to tectonic setting, as expressed in the Q (quartz)—F (feldspar)—L... 

Dickinson, W.R., Beard, L.S., Bankenridge, G.R. et al. (1983) Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstones in relation to tectonic setting. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 94, 222-235. 

Matter, A. Ramseyer, K. (1985) Cathodoluminescence microscopy as a tool for provenance studies of sandstones. In Provenance of Arenites (Ed. ZufFa, G.G.), pp. 191-211. Riedel, Dordrecht. 

Critelli, S. Le Pera, E (1994) Detrital modes and provenance of Miocene sandstones and modem sands of the southern Apennines thrust-top basins (Italy). J. sediment. Res., AM, 824-835. 

Young, H.R. Doig, D.J. (1986) Petrography and provenance of the Glauconitic Sandstone, south-central Alberta, with comments on the occurrence of detrital dolomite. Bull. Can. Petrol. Geol, 34, 408-425. 

Based on Folk s (1974) classification scheme, the average sandstone of the Hibernia Field is a sublith-arenite (Qgv 9 F3 g Rg.s). Individual samples are either quartz-arenitic or sublitharenitic, and some are subarkoses (Fig. 7 Table 1). If shale clasts, which are probably predominantly rip-up clasts of intrabasinal origin and do not carry provenance information with respect to terrigenous source areas, are excluded, then the majority of the samples would be classified as quartz arenites. 

Hamilton, P.J., Fallick, A.E., Macintyre, R.M. Elliot, S. (1987) Isotopic tracing of the provenance and diagenesis of Lower Brent Group Sandstones, North Sea. In Petroleum Geology of North West Europe (Eds Brooks, J. Glennie, K.W.), pp. 939-949. Graham Trotman, London. 

Discrimination diagrams have also been applied to the environment of deposition of sedimentary rocks. Potter et al. (1965) showed that a discriminant function based upon the trace elements B and V could be used to distinguish between freshwater and marine argillaceous sediments. More recently tectonic discrimination diagrams have also been extended to sedimentary rocks. Bhatia (1983) and Roser and Korsch (1988) have produced discriminant function diagrams which allow the identification of the provenance of sandstones according to their plate tectonic setting. 

Figure 5.31 Discriminant funcdon diagram for the provenance signatures of sandstone-mudstone suites using major elements (after Roser and Korsch, 1988). Fields for dominantly mafic, intermediate and felsic igneous provenances are shown with the field for a quartzose sedimentary provenance. The discriminant functions are...

Polymer flooding being a proven EOR technique in high permeable sandstones onshore, it is assttmed that if the in-situ viscosity of the polymer is in line with the retained design, after passing through the whole set of injection facihties specific to deep offshore implementation, incremental recovery should be as expected. 

If sequestration of CO2 is most practicable within deep sandstone aquifers with no proven lateral seal, there is a need to ensure that the CO2 will remain safely underground and not return to the atmosphere on relatively short time-scales (thousands of years). The track record of purpose-designed underground storage of... 

X-ray diffraction traces of surface scales and rock meal from severely weathered Scrabo Sandstone, Bedford Street, Belfast (A) and Quartz sandstone of unknown provenance from the main building. The Queen s University of Belfast (B). 

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