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This document provides a summary of key paleogeothermometric indicators, organic diagenesis processes, and siliciclastic diagenesis stages relevant to petroleum geoscience and subsurface geology. It includes a table outlining the relationship between coal rank, temperature, depth, vitrinite reflectance values, conodont alteration index, spore color index, illite crystallinity, and other indicators across different geothermal gradients. The stages of clay mineral diagenesis, petroleum generation and destruction, and metamorphism are also summarized.

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This document provides a summary of key paleogeothermometric indicators, organic diagenesis processes, and siliciclastic diagenesis stages relevant to petroleum geoscience and subsurface geology. It includes a table outlining the relationship between coal rank, temperature, depth, vitrinite reflectance values, conodont alteration index, spore color index, illite crystallinity, and other indicators across different geothermal gradients. The stages of clay mineral diagenesis, petroleum generation and destruction, and metamorphism are also summarized.

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Railsback's Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

Paleogeothermometric Indicators, Organic Diagenesis, and Siliciclastic Diagenesis


O Isotope Frac-
R0 CAI SCI Petroleum Stages in Clay 2 Silica Solubility tionation in Calcite Depth (Kilometers) T
T Coal Illite TTI (for different geothermal gradients)
Vitri- Conodont Spore Generation Petroleum Dia- Log aSiO 18 18
Oc - Ow (C)
(C) Rank nite Alteration Color Xtallinity 2
Refl. Index & Destruction Evolution genesis (approx.) -4.0 -3.0 -2.0
(same scale)
10 20 30
Index 10 20 30 0 40
Peat 1.0
1
Lignite Petroleum
50 Oil Diagenesis 1 50
0.4 2

Typical Illitization
Sub-bitum. Birth
1 1.5 Line

of Smectite
Coal 3 15
100 0.6 4 100
High-vol. 2 5
Bitum Peak
0.8 6 Oil
Coal Oil
7 Generation
150 8 0.8 75 150
1.0 3 Petroleum
Med-vol. 9
Bitum. Coal Catagenesis
Wet 160
10 Oil
200 1.5 Gas 200
Death

10
Low-vol.
Line

C
Bitum. Coal Dry

/km
2.0 Gas 1,500
Semi- 4
250 Anthracite 2.5
Wet 250

20C
Gas Petroleum
3.0
Floor Metagenesis 0.6 6,000

/k
Anthracite

m
300 4.0 Dry Gas 0.4 65,000 300
Meta- 5.0 Preservation 85,000
Limit

30C/km
Anthracite
5 Petroleum
350 350

70C/km
Metamorphism

50C/km
6

400 After Teichmller (1987); Austin (1987); Fisher et al. (1980, Proc. 4th Intl. Palyn. Conf.); Hutcheon et al (1989, Geoscience
400
Canada Diagenesis volume); Tissot & Welte 1978; Guthrie et al. (1986, AAPG Bull.); Islam et al. (1982, Canadian Miner);
Hower et al. (1976, GSA BUll.); Eberl (1993, Clays & Clay Minerals); Blatt (1992); Waples (1980, AAPG Bull.).
LBR 11/94

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