Time-calibration of carbonate diagenesis and regional tectonism in the Norwegian Barents Sea

Hodgskiss, Malcolm S.W.; Roberts, Nick M.W.; Matysik, Michał; Paiste, Päärn; Rameil, Niels; Hammer, Erik; Pedersen, Jon Halvard; Brunstad, Harald; Lepland, Aivo. 2024 Time-calibration of carbonate diagenesis and regional tectonism in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 165, 106892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106892

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106892

Abstract/Summary

Diagenesis plays a crucial role in carbonate reservoir properties, for example through the dissolution or precipitation of carbonate minerals, with burial history and fluid migration thought to play an important role in the timing of these events. To better understand these relationships and the local manifestation of regional events, we study carbonate sedimentary rocks and associated diagenetic cements from the Loppa High and Finnmark Platform using in-situ U–Pb carbonate geochronology and C–O stable isotope ratios, combined with burial history modelling. The results indicate a complex history of diagenesis: analyzed dolomicrite samples from the Loppa High typically yield ages that are older than their biostratigraphic age, in contrast to dolomicrite samples from the Finnmark Platform that yielded younger ages; this regional offset may be reflective of different styles of early diagenesis, as well as heterogeneous and re-deposited origin of some studied materials. While many diagenetic calcite cements coincide with modelled burial or uplift events, other events have no cements associated with them, although the possibility that some diagenetic carbonate phases were unsampled cannot be ruled out. Some calcite cements are not associated with burial events at all and may instead be related to hydrocarbon ‘charging’, supported by strongly negative δ13C values recorded in these cements. Broadly, these results highlight the value of integrating petrographic observations, burial history modelling, carbonate U–Pb geochronology, and C–O isotope ratios, as well as the complexity of untangling diagenetic histories.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106892
ISSN:	02648172
Date made live:	06 Aug 2024 12:08 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/537809

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106892

ISSN:

02648172

Date made live:

06 Aug 2024 12:08 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/537809