Dissolution and compaction of albite sand in distilled water and pH-buffered carboxylic acid solutions : experiments at 100 degrees and 160 degrees C /

500 mm) with distilled water, 0.07m acetate, and 0.07m

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Main Author: Carpenter, Thomas Doyle, 1965-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
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Summary:500 mm) with distilled water, 0.07m acetate, and 0.07m
ability of specific organic acid ligands to form both surface
acetate+0.005m citrate solutions in a hydrothermal flow-
acetate+0.005m citrate. In addition, the dissolution rate
albite solubility. Consequently, any chemically-based
and decrease with increasing strain in all pore fluids,
and may be chemically assisted by the aqueous pore fluid.
brittle mechanisms (fracture), at least at 100C. However,
buffer; however, even small amounts of citrate species appear
compaction was observed at 100 and 160'C at an effective
complexes and aqueous complexes with Al. Time-dependent
compositions that are near saturation with respect to albite.
concentrations show no unequivocal evidence for
differences) were similar in distilled water and the acetate
dissolution kinetics were also examined. Compared to
distilled water, Si-based dissolution rates are 2 times
effects of organic acids on time-dependent compaction rates
especially at 100C. Strain rates (corrected for strain
Experimental studies were conducted using albite sand (250 -
faster in 0.07m acetate and 5 times faster in 0.07m
fluid chemistry and compaction were monitored to quantify the
fluids during time-dependent compaction studies have
grain breakage at grain contacts. Albite dissolution appears
increases (=10%) when an effective pressure is applied,
indicate that time-dependent compaction occurs primarily by
interpretations of deformation mechanisms are severely
limited. Textural data and the lack of supersaturated fluids
of albite. The effects of stress and fluid chemistry on the
pressure of 34.5 MPa. Strain rates increase with temperature
probably due to increases in total surface area caused by
sites. The dissolution rate is strongly affected by the
supersaturation, primarily because of the uncertainty in
The fluids may be slightly supersaturated, but silicon
the time-dependent deformation is clearly thermally activated
through system at conditions that simulate diagenesis. Pore-
to be controlled by surface complexation reactions at Al
to enhance compaction compared to the other fluids Pore-
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