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Calcite cementation in shallow marine sandstones occurs as continuously cemented layers, as stratabound concretions and as scattered concretions. These geometrically different types of calcite cementation can all be explained by diffusion-controlled growth of calcite cement at the expense of biogenic carbonate contained within the sandstones. When biogenic carbonate is concentrated in layers, stratabound concretions or continuously cemented layers form because calcite-cement nuclei may then be concentrated within the biogenic carbonate-rich layers. Continuously cemented layers are thought to form by the merging of stratabound concretions; stratabound concretions form when the biogenic carbonate within a layer is exhausted prior to merging of the concretions. Scattered concretions probably form when biogenic carbonate is homogeneously distributed within a sandstone as preferred levels of nucleation may be absent. Calcite-cemented layers formed from biogenic carbonate inherit the geometry of the biogenic carbonate-rich beds. Constraints may therefore be placed on the probable lateral extents of cored calcite-cemented layers by identifying the type of biogenic carbonate-rich beds within which the calcite cemented layers were formed. Cored calcite-cemented zones belonging to scattered concretions can in some cases be identified by the physical sedimentary structures preserved within them, and by not being associated with surfaces of erosion or non-deposition.
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Bjørkum, P.A., Walderhaug, O. (1990). Lateral Extent of Calcite-cemented Zones in Shallow Marine Sandstones. In: Buller, A.T., Berg, E., Hjelmeland, O., Kleppe, J., Torsæter, O., Aasen, J.O. (eds) North Sea Oil and Gas Reservoirs—II. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0791-1_28
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