| Abstract: | Empirical relationships between clay mineral transformations and temperature provide a basis for the use of clay minerals as geothermometers. Clay-mineral geothermometry has been applied mainly to diagenetic, hydrothermal, and contact- and burial-metamorphic settings to better understand the thermal histories of migrating fluids, hydrocarbon source beds, and ore and mineral formation. Quantitatively, the most important diagenetic clay mineral reaction in sedimentary rocks is the progressive transformation of smectite to illite via mixed-layer illite/smectite (I/S). Changes in the ordering of I/S are particularly useful in the exploration for hydrocarbons because of the common coincidence between the temperatures for the conversion from random-to-ordered I/S and those for the onset of peak, or main phase, oil generation. Using three common applications, the I/S geothermometer is compared to other mineral geothermometers, organic maturation indices, and grades of indigenous hydrocarbons. -from Author |
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| Citation Author: | Pollastro, R. M. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Clays and Clay Minerals |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Considerations and applications of the illite/smectite geothermometer in hydrocarbon-bearing rocks of Miocene to Mississippian age; 1993; Article; Journal; Clays and Clay Minerals; Pollastro, R. M. |
| Citation Start Page: | 119 |
| Citation Volume: | 41 |
| Citation Year: | 1993 |
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| Text: | Considerations and applications of the illite/smectite geothermometer in hydrocarbon-bearing rocks of Miocene to Mississippian age; 1993; Article; Journal; Clays and Clay Minerals; Pollastro, R. M. |
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| Date Other: | Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00 -0600 |
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