Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Feb 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993gecoa..57..763s&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 57, Issue 4, pp.763-784
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
We have analyzed a suite of seventy-four formation-water samples from Mississippian and Pennsylvanian carbonate and siliciclastic strata in the Illinois basin for major, minor, and trace element concentrations and for strontium isotopic composition. A subset of these samples was also analyzed for boron isotopic composition. Data are used to interpret origin of salinity and chemical and Sr isotopic evolution of the brines and in comparison with a similar data set from an earlier study of basin formation waters from Silurian-Devonian reservoirs. Systematics of Cl-Br-Na show that present Mississippian-Pennsylvanian brine salinity can be explained by a combination of subaerial seawater evaporation short of halite saturation and subsurface dissolution of halite from an evaporite zone in the middle Mississippian St. Louis Limestone, along with extensive dilution by mixing with meteoric waters. Additional diagenetic modifications in the subsurface interpreted from cation/Br ratios include K depletion through interaction with clay minerals, Ca enrichment, and Mg depletion by dolomitization, and Sr enrichment through CaCO 3 recrystallization and dolomitization. Ste. Genevieve Limestone (middle Mississippian) formation waters show 87 Sr / 86 Sr ratios in the range 0.70782-0.70900, whereas waters from the siliciclastic reservoirs are in the range 0.70900-0.71052. Inverse correlations between 87 Sr / 86 Sr and B, Li, and Mg concentrations suggest that the brines acquired radiogenic 87 Sr through interaction with siliciclastic minerals. Completely unsystematic relations between 87 Sr / 86 Sr and 1/Sr are observed; Sr concentrations in Ste. Genevieve and Aux Vases (middle Mississippian) waters appear to be buffered by equilibrium with respect to SrSO 4 . Although there are many similarities in their origin and evolution, these formation waters are distinguished from Silurian-Devonian brines in the basin by elevated Cl / Br and Na / Br ratios and by unsystematic Sr isotope relationships. Thus waters from these two major segments of the Illinois basin stratigraphic column form distinct geochemical regimes which are separated by the New Albany Shale Group (Devonian-Mississippian) regional aquitard. Geochemical evolution appears to have been influenced significantly by Paleozoic and Mesozoic hydrologic flow systems in the basin.
Huston Ted J.
Pushkar Paul
Stueber Alan M.
Walter Lynn M.
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