Stress sandstone compaction

Compaction of mudstones is, as for sand, mostly a function of effective stress at low temperatures (<80°C) (Aplin et al. 1999, Bjprlykke 1997). Carbonate cementation sourced by biogenic carbonate may, however, occur at rather shallow depth so that carbonate concretions or layers can be rendered almost incompressible at shallow depth. The precipitation of quartz cement in mudstones follows much the same principles as in sandstones and is primarily controlled by the temperature. Dissolution of biogenic silica has a strong effect as a source of silica on quartz cementation at temperatures exceeding about 80 C. When modelling the compaction of mudstones the... 

Dewers, T. Hajash, A. 1995. Rate laws for water-assisted compaction and stress-induced water-rock interaction in sandstones. J. Geophys. Res., 100 pp. 13,093-13,112. 

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