Provenance and diagenesis of the Upper Jurassic Qigu Formation sandstones in the southern Junggar Basin, NW China

  • Huaguo Wen
  • Yanxia Jiang
  • Hu Huang
  • Yapeng Liu
  • Tao Wang
  • Yiqin Jiang
  • Jun Jin
  • Liqi Qi
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Abstract

The Upper Jurassic Qigu Formation sandstones in the southern Junggar Basin typically have calcite cements. Two stages of calcite cements which were distinguished based on cathodoluminescence and casting body slice image increased rock pressure resistance to a certain extent, effectively prevented the quartz overgrowth, and are characterized by a style of filling of intergranular porosity that deteriorated the reservoir permeability. Result from the laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry indicates that the detrital zircons in the Qigu Formation sandstones are mostly magmatic in origin with U-Pb zircon ages of ∼300 and ∼160 Ma. These detrital zircons were largely derived from the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian and Late Jurassic magmatic rocks in the Tianshan area. All clastic rocks exhibit negative Nb, Ta, and Ti anomalies on primitive mantle-normalized elemental diagrams and high Al2O3/TiO2 ratios, implying the existence of a sedimentary source dominated by intermediate and felsic magmatic rocks. Our result indicates that the Late Jurassic volcanism may be extensively distributed around the Tianshan area. The diagenesis of calcite cements could decrease the Al2O3, TiO2, MgO, K2O, Hf, Th, and Zr contents and increase the MnO content, which may play an important role in variational contents of elements.

Keywords

Junggar Basin Qigu Formation Sandstone Provenance Diagenesis 
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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their constructive comments and suggestions which substantially improved our manuscript. The authors thank Dr. Wenli Xu, Yingbo Li, and Leyan Zhao for joining the field work. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41572097) and National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015CB453000).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Huaguo Wen
    • 1
    • 2
  • Yanxia Jiang
    • 1
    • 2
  • Hu Huang
    • 1
    • 2
  • Yapeng Liu
    • 1
    • 2
  • Tao Wang
    • 1
    • 2
  • Yiqin Jiang
    • 3
  • Jun Jin
    • 3
  • Liqi Qi
    • 3
  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and ExploitationChengdu University of TechnologyChengduChina
  2. 2.Institute of Sedimentary GeologyChengdu University of TechnologyChengduChina
  3. 3.Research Institute of Experiment and Detection, Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyPetro China Company LimitedKaramayChina

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