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Insights to controls on dolomitization by means of reactive transport models applied to the Benicàssim case study (Maestrat Basin, eastern Spain)

M. Corbella, E. Gomez-Rivas, J. D. Martín-Martín, S. L. Stafford, A. Teixell, A. Griera, A. Travé, E. Cardellach and R. Salas
Petroleum Geoscience, 20, 41-54, 27 January 2014, https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2012-095
M. Corbella
1Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
2ExxonMobil (FC)2 Alliance (Fundamental Controls on Flow in Carbonates)
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E. Gomez-Rivas
1Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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3Department of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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4Departament de Petrologia, Geoquímica i Prospecció Geològica, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, UB, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
5Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere, Institute of Earth Science Jaume Almera (CSIC), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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S. L. Stafford
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6ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, PO Box 2189, Houston, TX 77252-2189, USA
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A. Griera
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A. Travé
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Abstract

Partially dolomitized carbonate rocks of the Middle East and North America host large hydrocarbon reserves. The origin of some of these dolomites has been attributed to a hydrothermal mechanism. The Benicàssim area (Maestrat Basin, eastern Spain) constitutes an excellent field analogue for fault-controlled stratabound hydrothermal dolomitization: dolostone geobodies are well exposed and extend over several kilometres away from seismic-scale faults. This work investigates the main controls on the formation of stratabound versus massive dolomitization in carbonate sequences by means of two-dimensional (2D) reactive transport models applied to the Benicàssim case study. Simulation results suggest that the dolomitization capacity of Mg-rich fluids reaches a maximum at temperatures around 100 °C and a minimum at 25 °C (studied temperature range: 25–150 °C). It takes of the order of hundreds of thousands to millions of years to completely dolomitize kilometre-long limestone sections, with solutions flowing laterally through strata at velocities of metres per year (m/a). Permeability differences of two orders of magnitude between layers are required to form stratabound dolomitization. The kilometre-long stratabound dolostone geobodies of Benicàssim must have formed under a regime of lateral flux greater than metres per year over about a million years. As long-term dolomitization tends to produce massive dolostone bodies not seen at Benicàssim, the dolomitizing process there must have been limited by the availability of fluid volume or the flow-driving mechanism. Reactive transport simulations have proven a useful tool to quantify aspects of the Benicàssim genetic model of hydrothermal dolomitization.

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Insights to controls on dolomitization by means of reactive transport models applied to the Benicàssim case study (Maestrat Basin, eastern Spain)

M. Corbella, E. Gomez-Rivas, J. D. Martín-Martín, S. L. Stafford, A. Teixell, A. Griera, A. Travé, E. Cardellach and R. Salas
Petroleum Geoscience, 20, 41-54, 27 January 2014, https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2012-095
M. Corbella
1Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
2ExxonMobil (FC)2 Alliance (Fundamental Controls on Flow in Carbonates)
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E. Gomez-Rivas
1Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
2ExxonMobil (FC)2 Alliance (Fundamental Controls on Flow in Carbonates)
3Department of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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J. D. Martín-Martín
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4Departament de Petrologia, Geoquímica i Prospecció Geològica, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, UB, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
5Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere, Institute of Earth Science Jaume Almera (CSIC), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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S. L. Stafford
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M. Corbella, E. Gomez-Rivas, J. D. Martín-Martín, S. L. Stafford, A. Teixell, A. Griera, A. Travé, E. Cardellach and R. Salas
Petroleum Geoscience, 20, 41-54, 27 January 2014, https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2012-095
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