Stylolites: A review

Toussaint, Renaud; Aharonov, Einat; Koehn, Daniel; Gratier, Jean‐Pierre; Ebner, Martin; Baud, Patrick; Rolland, Alexandra; Renard, François

doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2018.05.003

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“…This sequence could be the reason why the local stress perturbation above the tip of the basement fault is not recorded by the tectonic stylolites. We propose that during stress build‐up in the flat‐lying strata, pressure solution initiated with low σ d along planar solubility heterogeneities in rocks (such as elongated pores) and halted rapidly, presumably by clogging around the dissolution planes (Toussaint et al, ). Stylolites would have therefore dissipated the earliest part of the stress build‐up before saturating.…”

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Does stress transmission in forelands depend on structural style? Distinctive stress magnitudes during Sevier thin‐skinned and Laramide thick‐skinned layer‐parallel shortening in the Bighorn Basin (USA) revealed by stylolite and calcite twinning paleopiezometry

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The Sheep Mountain-Little Sheep Mountain Anticlines, Bighorn Basin (USA) formed as basement-cored Laramide structures in the formerly undeformed foreland of the thin-skinned Sevier orogen. We take advantage of the well-constrained microstructural network there to reconstruct differential stress magnitudes that prevailed during both Sevier and Laramide layer-parallel shortening (LPS), before the onset of large-scale folding. Differential stress magnitudes determined from tectonic stylolites are compared and combined to previous stress estimates from calcite twinning paleopiezometry in the same formations. During stress loading related to LPS, differential stress magnitudes transmitted from the distant Sevier thin-skinned orogen into the sedimentary cover of the Bighorn basin (11-43 MPa) are higher than the differential stress magnitudes accompanying the early stage of LPS related to the thickskinned Laramide deformation (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19). This study illustrates that the tectonic style of an orogen affects the transmission of early orogenic stress into the stable continental interior.

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“…Stylolites are serrated surfaces (Figure b) that develop by chemical dissolution under stress (Alvarez, Engelder, & Geiser, ; Fletcher & Pollard, ; Koehn et al, ; Toussaint et al, ). The growth and the morphology of a stylolite are rate‐dependent (e.g.…”

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Does stress transmission in forelands depend on structural style? Distinctive stress magnitudes during Sevier thin‐skinned and Laramide thick‐skinned layer‐parallel shortening in the Bighorn Basin (USA) revealed by stylolite and calcite twinning paleopiezometry

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“…Some stylolites (S1-2) have higher amplitudes forms, rectangular layer type and seismogram pinning type, and low intersection angles with the strata and bedding-parallel stylolites (S1-1) (Figure 5a,b). These stylolites (S1-2) merge and overprint those of the bedding-parallel stylolites (S1-1), suggesting a postdate pressure solution [43]. Stylolites were encountered mainly in wackstone-packstone rather than in sparry cement grainstones, which suggests a lithological control on pressure solution.…”

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“…Some stylolites (S2) are perpendicular or oblique to bedding (Figure 5b,c). These stylolites are generally classified as tectonic stylolites with surfaces perpendicular to the largest compressive principal stress axis [43]. The tectonic stylolites are generally sub-perpendicular to, terminate or intersect with the bedding-parallel stylolites.…”

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Structural Diagenesis in Carbonate Rocks as Identified in Fault Damage Zones in the Northern Tarim Basin, NW China

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The identification of structural diagenesis and the reconstruction of diagenetic paragenesis in fault damage zones is important for understanding fault mechanisms and fluid flow in the subsurface. Based on the examination of core and sample thin section data, we deciphered the diagenetic parasequence and their fault controls for Ordovician carbonates in the northern Tarim intracratonic basin in NW China (Halahatang area). In contrast to the uniform nature of diagenesis observed in country rocks, there is a relatively complicated style of compaction and pressure solution, multiple fracturing, and cementation and dissolution history along the carbonate fault damage zones. The relative paragenetic sequence of the structure related diagenesis suggests three cycles of fracture activities, following varied fracture enlargement and dissolution, and progressively weaker calcite cementation. These processes of structure related diagenesis are constrained to the fault damage zones, and their variation is affected by the fault activities. The results of this study suggest that the carbonate reservoir and productivity could be impacted by the structure related diagenesis locally along the fault damage zones.

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Stylolites: A review

Cited by 125 publications

References 160 publications

Does stress transmission in forelands depend on structural style? Distinctive stress magnitudes during Sevier thin‐skinned and Laramide thick‐skinned layer‐parallel shortening in the Bighorn Basin (USA) revealed by stylolite and calcite twinning paleopiezometry

Does stress transmission in forelands depend on structural style? Distinctive stress magnitudes during Sevier thin‐skinned and Laramide thick‐skinned layer‐parallel shortening in the Bighorn Basin (USA) revealed by stylolite and calcite twinning paleopiezometry

Structural Diagenesis in Carbonate Rocks as Identified in Fault Damage Zones in the Northern Tarim Basin, NW China

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