Little Cedar Creek Rock Composition and

Diagenesis
● Detrital gnsts/pksts > uniform texture, lack “cloudy” envelope, sparse to no
microfossils, subhorizontal to inclined bedding.

● Peloid-rich rocks > very poorly sorted peloids in micrite matrix, irregular grain
shape, cloudy, micritic haze around micro-constituents, irregular wavy to
crinkly bedding.

● Peloidal rocks contain low diversity-high abundance microfossils (ostracods

and miliolids).

● Dissolution diagenesis attacks grains in coarse detrital rocks but attacks

inter-peloidal spaces in “microbialites”

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 Detrital Grainstone-Packstones

Metastable grain dissolution: rim cements not as affected. Hybrid pores (partial
dissolution of depositional texture/fabric). Good sorting, sparse biota.

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 Micritic Matrix, Peloids & Microfossils

Poorly bedded, mud-dominated, abundant low diversity microfossils

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 Micrite, Microfossils, Microbial peloids, Poorly to Irregularly
Bedded

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 Microbial peloids, Ostracods O, Miliolids M

O?

Peloids
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 Preferential Diagenesis Around Peloid Clusters?
No Pelmoldic Pores?

Isopachous rim cement on peloids; partial dolomite Dolomitization around calcitic peloids &
replacement, late leaching around peloids. Did peloid clusters?
peloid mineralogy impede dissolution?

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 Porosity = interparticle - around peloids and peloid clusters. Clusters enclosed in
micritic cloud – haze – or isopachous rim cement if grain adjacent to original pore
space

Ostracod

Rim Cement

Cluster

Cluster

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 Inferences

● Detrital grainstone-packstone reservoir zones have moldic +/- dolomite

intercrystalliine porosity

● Where moldic, Archie M must be adjusted higher than 2

● Microbialites appear to have more interparticle and solution-enhanced

interparticle porosity. This should translate to better Φ – k correspondence
than moldic and separate vug pores and better connectivity.

● Microbialites with solution-enhanced interparticle pores +/- extensive dolomite

replacement and post-dolomite leaching should be best reservoir rock type

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