Patterns of early post-depositional and burial cementation in distal shallow-marine sandstones: Upper Cretaceous Kenilworth Member, Book Cliffs, Utah, USA

Extensive carbonate cementation of fluvial sandstones: An integrated outcrop and petrographic analysis from the Upper Cretaceous, Book Cliffs, Utah

“…The nature and timing of carbonate cementation of marine sandstone successions has been extensively reported in the literature (e.g., Bjørkum and Walderhaug, 1990;Wilkinson, 1991;Hendry et al, 1996;Morad, 1998;Klein et al, 1999). Furthermore, the field-and basin-scale patterns of carbonate cementation have been elucidated within many marine successions, and this has resulted in an understanding of the sedimentological and stratigraphic controls on the distribution of cementation (e.g., Prosser et al, 1993;Morad, 1998;Al-Ramadan et al, 2005;Machent et al, 2007;Taylor and Machent, 2010). Extensive carbonate cementation has also been previously reported from fluvial strata (e.g., Mozley and Davis, 1996;Milliken, 1998;Salem et al, 2000;Rossi et al, 2002;McBride and Milliken, 2006;Cavazza et al, 2009;Khidir and Catuneanu, 2010), but there is less of an understanding of the stratigraphic and sedimentological controls on its large-scale distribution (but see El-Ghali et al, 2009;Kordi et al, 2011).…”

Systematic sequence-scale controls on carbonate cementation in a siliciclastic sedimentary basin: Examples from Upper Cretaceous shallow marine deposits of Utah and Coloradao, USA

“…It has been suggested that this alteration can be controlled in many instances by the stratigraphic development of these strata (Taylor et al, 2000;Taylor and Gawthorpe, 2003;Ketzer et al, 2002aKetzer et al, , b, 2003Al-Ramadan et al, 2005;Machent et al, 2007).…”

“…Specifically, the development of sequence boundaries has been documented to control meteoric-fluid driven carbonate cementation and kaolinitization (Taylor and Gawthorpe, 2003;Cavazza et al, 2009), whilst marine flooding surfaces have been shown to commonly result in laterally extensive carbonate cementation (Klein et al, 1999;Taylor et al, 2000;Machent et al, 2007). Whilst these models give important insights into patterns of diagenetic alteration, they are invariably based on individual sequence-or parasequence-scale observations, often focused around only one or two stratal surfaces (e.g., Klein et al, 1999).…”

“…Individual shoreface tongues are similarly labelled. Modified from Machent et al (2007), after Balsley (1980) and Hampson and Storms (2003).…”

Petrographical and geochemical evidences for paragenetic sequence interpretation of diagenesis in mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sediments: Mozduran Formation (Upper Jurassic), south of Agh-Darband, NE Iran

“…This process may have taken place during the late burial diagenetic stage when the acidic waters formed from carboxylation generated from organic matter in shales moved into these coarser-grain sediments (e.g., Ahmad and Bhat 2006; Machent et al 2007). …”