The feldspar group is one of the most common types of minerals in the earth's crust.
Feldspar alteration (including the whole processes of feldspar dissolution, transfer of …

The porosity and permeability of sandstone and carbonate reservoirs (known as reservoir
quality) are essential inputs for successful oil and gas resource exploration and exploitation …

Fig. 1 Pressure–temperature diagram relating diagenesis to metamorphic regimes and
typical P–T gradients in Earth's crust. The crustal geotherm of 10 C km− 1 is representative …

Proper assessment of the relative importance of porosity loss by compaction and
cementation is important to the prediction of porosity in sandstones, studies of mass …

A reactive fluid flow and geochemical transport numerical model for evaluating long‐term
CO2 disposal in deep geologic formations has been developed. The numerical model is …

Although the presence of carboxylic acids and carboxylate anions in oil field waters is
commonly attributed to the thermal maturation of kerogen or bacterial degractation of …

Sedimentary petrology is the basis for most mineral and textural identification in sandstones.
Automating mineralogical interpretation of an entire thin section image has many practical …

This review examines the history and current practice of technologies for imaging of pores in
sedimentary rocks. Pores are that portion of the rock volume occupied by components of …

The Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group in the Piceance Basin, western Colorado,
contains thick sections of low porosity, low permeability sandstones that are reservoirs for …

Sandstone compositional data can be a powerful tool in the interpretation of tectonic and
climatologic influences on sedimentary basin fill, in addition to yielding important information …