Origin and diagenesis of the manetoe facies, southern Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada.

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dc.contributor.advisorSpencer, Ronald James
dc.contributor.authorAulstead, Kathy Loree
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dc.coverage.spatial200000558en
dc.date.accessioned2005-07-21T21:25:05Z
dc.date.available2005-07-21T21:25:05Z
dc.date.issued1987
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 132-142.en
dc.description.abstractThe Manetoe Facies is a diagenetic feature developed in Lower and Middle Devonian carbonates of the Mackenzie Shelf. The Manetoe Facies is of economic importance in that it forms the reservoir rock for three gas fields and contains lead-zinc mineralization similar in nature to Mississippi Valley-type deposits. The paragenetic sequence of cements is: white sparry dolomite, bitumen, fluorite, anhydrite, barite, calcite, quartz, sphalerite and galena. Dolomite of the Manetoe Facies formed prior to the end of the Devonian in a hydrothermal system. Lateral relations in outcrop indicate that the formation of dolomite cement was contemporaneous with dolomitization of surrounding strata. Fluid inclusion data indicate dolomite cements formed from hot (150-210 °C), hypersaline (18-29 eq. wt. % NaCl) brines. This agrees well with s 10 0 of the dolomite cements (-9 to -16 °/oo PDB), yielding an initial water composition of +3 to +10 °/oo SMOW. Results of experimental stretching of fluid inclusions in dolomite imply that it is unlikely that inclusions in dolomite stretched under conditions of maximum burial. Evidence for dolomitization during the Devonian is provided by extreme changes in conodont colour alteration indices from Devonian to Mississippian samples, the stratigraphic position of the Manetoe Facies (confined to Middle Devonian strata) and the similarity of S 34 S of sulphate in barite and anhydrite cements (which post-date dolomitization) to late Middle to Upper Devonian seawater sulphate. Fluorite cements formed from fluids similar to those causing dolomitization at temperatures near 130°C, as indicated by analyses of fluid inclusions. Barite cements formed from moderately saline fluids {13 eq. wt. % NaCl). Calcite cements formed from hot {110-190°C) fluids whose salinity decreased during precipitation (18-1.7 eq. wt. % NaCl), as determined from fluid inclusion analyses. Oxygen isotope ratios for calcite cements trend toward negative values (to -36 °/oo PDB), which, in association with fluid inclusion salinity data, record influx of fresh waters into strata which host the Manetoe Facies, probably in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Quartz cements formed at temperatures between 130 and 215°C, from fluids of salinity similar to those which formed calcite cements. Strontium isotope ratios from dolomite and calcite cements are more radiogenic than unaltered limestones. This implies that the brines circulated through elastic or basement rocks prior to cement formation. Increasing burial depth from north to south across the study area, in the Mesozoic, may explain the systematic increase in fluid inclusion homogenization temperatures of approximately 80°C in quartz and calcite cements.
dc.format.extentxii, 143 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationAulstead, K. L. (1987). Origin and diagenesis of the manetoe facies, southern Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada. (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/13920en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/13920
dc.identifier.isbn0315379642en
dc.identifier.lccQE 665 A86 1988en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/23579
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.relationAdditional Copy: QE 665 A86 1987en
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dc.subject.lccQE 665 A86 1988en
dc.subject.lcshGeology, Stratigraphic - Devonian
dc.subject.lcshDiagenesis - Yukon Territory, Southern
dc.subject.lcshDiagenesis - Northwest Territories
dc.subject.lcshFacies (Geology) - Yukon Territory, Southern
dc.subject.lcshFacies (Geology) - Northwest Territories
dc.titleOrigin and diagenesis of the manetoe facies, southern Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada.
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thesis.degree.disciplineGeology and Geophysics
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 607 215772210
ucalgary.thesis.additionalcopyQE 665 A86 1987en
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