Diagenetic reorientation of phyllosilicate minerals in Paleogene mudstones of the Podhale Basin, southern Poland
Day-Stirrat, Ruarri J. (Newcastle University. School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences)
Aplin, Andrew C. (Newcastle University. School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences)
Środoń, Jan (Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Geological Sciences)
van der Pluum, Ben A. (University of Michigan. Department of Geological Sciences)

Fecha:	2008
Resumen:	We used high-resolution X-ray texture goniometry to quantify changes in the mm-scale orientation of phyllosilicate minerals in a suite of Paleogene mudstones from the Podhale Basin in southern Poland. The sample set covers an estimated range of burial depths between 2. 4 and 7. 0 km, corresponding to a temperature range of 60-160°C. Although mechanical compaction has reduced porosities to ∼10% in the shallowest samples, the phyllosilicate fabric is only modestly aligned. Coarser-grained (>10 μm) detrital chlorite and mica appear to be more strongly aligned with (001) parallel to bedding, suggesting their deposition as single grains rather than as isotropic flocs or aggregates. From 2. 4 to 4. 6 km, R0 illite-smectite with 40-50% illite layers changes to R1 illite-smectite with 70-80% illite layers. At the same time kaolinite is lost and diagenetic chlorite is formed. The mineralogical changes are accompanied by a strong increase in the alignment of illite-smectite, chlorite, and detrital illite, parallel to bedding and normal to the presumed principal effective stress. We propose that the development of a more aligned I-S fabric results from the dissolution of smectite and the growth of illite with (001) normal to the maximum effective stress. Water released by illitization may act as a lubricant for the rotation of all platy minerals into nanoporosity transiently formed by the illitization reaction. At greater depths and temperatures, further illitization is inhibited through the exhaustion of K-feldspar. After the cessation of illitization, a further 2. 4 km of burial only results in a small increase in phyllosilicate alignment. At such small values for porosity and pore size, increasing stress does not substantially reorient phyllosilicates in the absence of mineralogical change.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Diagenesis ; Fabric ; Mudstone ; Phyllosilicate ; Shale ; Textural Goniometry
Publicado en:	Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol. 56, Núm. 1 (2008) , p. 100-111, ISSN 1552-8367

DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2008.0560109

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