Natural and Induced Diagenesis in Clastic Rock
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2025 | Viewed by 111
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diagenesis; water–rock reaction simulation; reservoir evaluation
Interests: sediment diagenesis and reservoir quality prediction; carbon capture and geostorage; geothermal energy; natural hydrogen and helium exploration; human-induced seismicity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The process whereby unconsolidated sediment becomes indurated rock is called diagenesis. It includes compaction, resulting from burial loading along with precipitation of new mineral species from the connate water and, in many instances, dissolution of deposited grains and/or earlier precipitated cements. Diagenesis may begin immediately after deposition and continue episodically until throughout its geological history. The process of near-surface weathering is commonly treated separately.
Although diagenesis is a natural process, subsurface interventions by humans can accidentally or intentionally induce reactions leading to compaction, mineral precipitation, and/or mineral dissolution. Such induced processes have been known about for decades, but only now, as humanity increases its exploitation of the subsurface for geoenergy and storage or disposal of fluids, is interest growing.
The fluid/rock and fluid/fluid reactions that characterize diagenesis most commonly involve water but can also include petroleum, carbon dioxide, and other non-aqueous fluids, such as nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, and hydrogen.
Diagenesis changes the properties of the rock in which it acts. The changes include but are not limited to the rock’s acoustic impedance, strength, unit thickness, porosity, permeability, grain surfaces, wettability, and bound water. These changes in turn affect rocks response to seismic signals, measurements made during well logging and quality of the reservoir in terms of its storage capacity, producibility and injectivity. Together and separately, these property changes will affect the technical and commercial viability of exploiting the sandstone for its contained fluids and fluid storage potential.
The Special Issue invites submissions, including original scientific research on clastic diagenesis and water–rock reaction mechanisms from well-known and/or new regions around the world. This Special Issue focuses on the following: (1) mineral–fluid reaction mechanism of clastic rocks (including sandstone and shale); (2) geochemistry and chronology of diagenetic minerals in clastic rocks (including sandstone and shale); and (3) the application of comprehensive diagenesis on the reservoir prediction for clastic rock.
Dr. Meiyan Fu
Prof. Dr. Jon Gluyas
Dr. Dong Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diagenetic fluid
- multi-mineral phase interaction
- dissolution mechanism
- organic–inorganic interaction
- diagenetic facies
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