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Diagenesis

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Encyclopedia of Geochemistry

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Diagenesis classified by setting and evolutionary stage ofsedimentary basins: Eogenetic or eodiagenesis (near surface and shallow burial), mesogenetic or mesodiagenesis (deeper burial), and telogenetic or telodiagenesis (uplifted succession) (Choquette and Pray 1970).

Diagenesis classified by process: Syndiagenesis (biogeochemical processes at the sediment-water interface through shallow burial), anadiagenesis (dominantly physicochemical processes under deeper burial or orogenic conditions), and epidiagenesis (biogeochemical processes associated with fluid flow during uplift) (Fairbridge 1967).

Catagenesis (late, deep-burial diagenesis, referred by some as “burial metamorphism” as it incorporates the earliest stage of metamorphism).

Definition

Diagenesis is the sum total of physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur in sediments and sedimentary rocks from immediately after deposition through to the metamorphic realm. No universal definition exists for diagenesis...

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  1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Isabel P. Montañez

  2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Laura J. Crossey

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Montañez, I.P., Crossey, L.J. (2018). Diagenesis. In: White, W.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39312-4_35

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