Burial diagenesis in the Upper Devonian Reef complexes of the Geikie Gorge region, Canning Basin, Western Australia

Abstract

Devonian-Lower Carboniferous burial diagenesis was the most important porosity occluding episode because almost all primary porosity was destroyed. Dolomitization and consequent secondary porosity development also occurred during early burial diagenesis. Karstification and minor calcite cementation took place during Late Carboniferous subaerial exposure. Minor calcite cementation occurred during Permian-Cenozoic burial. Karstification, dedolomitization, and calcite recrystallization took place in association with Cenozoic meteoric diagenesis. -from Authors