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Relationships between authigenic mineral transformation and variation in vitrinite reflectance during diagenesis: an example from the Tertiary of northern Kyushu, Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

T. Miki
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan
Y. Nakamuta
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan
J. Aizawa
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-01, Japan

Abstract

The Tertiary sequences in northern Kyushu, Japan, contain several types of zeolite and clay minerals together with carbonaceous materials. A correlation between authigenic mineral zones and vitrinite reflectance reveals the delay in mineral authigenesis relative to the increase in vitrinite reflectance compared with similar studies in other regions. This may be ascribed to causes such as high paleogeothermal gradient, and chemical composition of pore-waters and host sediment.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1991

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