Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (3): 738-746.doi: 10.11743/ogg20210318

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Application of clumped isotopes to restoration of dolomitizing fluids and its limitations

Pingping Li1,2(), Chun Wang1,2, Huayao Zou1,2, Xinya Yu3   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
    2. College of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
    3. Faculty of Earth Resource, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
  • Received:2021-01-25 Online:2021-06-28 Published:2021-06-23

Abstract:

Clumped isotopes (Δ47) can be used to determine formation temperature of carbonate minerals.If combined with the conventional oxygen thermometer and δ18O of the minerals, the temperature can be used further to calculate the δ18O of fluids (water), in which the minerals are developed.This provides a potential new method for determining the δ18O and sources of dolomitizing fluids.However, affected by recrystallization and solid-state reordering after dolomitization, the clumped isotope temperature (TΔ47) usually reads higher than the actual dolomitization temperature, thus limiting the application of TΔ47 to the restoration of fluid δ18O.To determine the sources of the dolomitizing fluids from the Changxing (P2c) and Feixianguan Formations (T1f) in northeastern Sichuan Basin, clumped isotopes of dolostone samples from the Puguang and Yuanba gas fields were collected and measured.The TΔ47 of P2c and T1f dolostone samples from the two gas fields ranges between 70 ℃ and 130 ℃, which, however, should be seen as apparent temperature of the samples considering the effect of recrystallization and solid-state reordering.The thermal history and solid-state reordering model results show that the apparent temperature of the samples would increase by about 30-35 ℃ under high-temperature solid-state reordering and the δ18O of the dolomitizing fluids is 0-4‰ (SMOW) after restoring solid-state reordering, indicating a high-salinity evaporative sea water source.

Key words: clumped isotope, oxygen isotope, recrystallization, dolostone, dolomitizing fluid, carbonate, Sichuan Basin

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