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Title: | Reactivity of dolomitizing fluids and Mg source evaluation of fault-controlled dolomitization at the Benicàssim outcrop analogue (Maestrat Basin, E Spain) |
Author: | Gómez Rivas, Enrique Corbella i Cordomí, Mercè Martín, Juan Diego (Martín Martín) Stafford, S.L. Teixell Cácharo, Antonio Bons, Paul D. Griera, Albert Cardellach, E. |
Keywords: | Dolomia Jaciments hidrotermals Dolomite Hydrothermal deposits |
Issue Date: | Aug-2014 |
Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
Abstract: | The mechanisms responsible for the formation of huge volumes of dolomitized rocks associated with faults are not well understood. We present a case study for high-temperature dolomitization of an Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) ramp in Benicàssim (Maestrat basin, E Spain). In this area, seismic-scale fault-controlled stratabound dolostone bodies extend over several kilometres away from large-scale faults. This work aims at evaluating different Mg sources for dolomitization, estimating the reactivity of dolomitizing fluids at variable temperature and quantifying the required versus available fluid volumes to account for the Benicàssim dolostones. Field relationships, stable 13C and 18O isotopes, as well as radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr isotopes, indicate that dolomitization at Benicàssim was produced by a high temperature fluid (> 80ºC). 13C and 18O isotopic compositions for dolomite vary from +0.5 and +2.9 V-PDB and from +21.1 and +24.3 V-SMOW, respectively. A Mg source analysis reveals that the most likely dolomitizing fluid was seawater-derived brine that interacted with underlying Triassic red beds and Paleozoic basement. Geochemical models suggest that evolved seawater can be considerably more reactive than high-salinity brines, and that the maximum reactivity occurs at about 100ºC. Mass-balance calculations indicate that interstitial fluids with high pressure and/or high temperature relative to the normal geothermal gradient cannot account for the volume of dolomite at Benicàssim. Instead a pervasive fluid circulation mechanism, like thermal convection, is required to provide a sufficient volume of dolomitizing fluid, which most likely occurred during the Late Cretaceous post-rift stage of the Maestrat Basin. This study illustrates the importance of fluid budget quantification to critically evaluate genetic models for dolomitization and other diagenetic processes. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.12.015 |
It is part of: | Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2014, vol. 55, p. 26-42 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/127756 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.12.015 |
ISSN: | 0264-8172 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada) |
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