Abstract: The main reservoir sandstones in the Maling oil field and its periphery in ShanXi-Gansu-Ningxia Basin, Northwest China-Yan-10 sandstones of lower Jurassic(including Fuxian formation)are referred to as confined valley fill deposits.The difference of mineral compositions of the sandstone bodies deposited in different paleochannel systems leads to the different processes of diagenesis and then results in the difference of pore textures and reservoir properties of sandstones thus formed.Mechanical compaction during the immature period of mesodiagenesis seriously damages the primary intergranular pores of sandstones with more flexiblecomponents，but only slightly hits the interg pores in the quartzose sandstones.Cementation subsequent to the compaction usually and more easily occurs in the quartzose sandstone but not in the sandstone with more flexible clastics.when these two kinds of sands tones have undergone the process of diagenesis of different charactersaad reduced their porosity to the same level.the pore-throat and the permeability of quarizose sand-stones would be much larger than those of other sandstones because the intergranular pores in the former are still better developed.Secondary enlargement of quartz would destroy the homogeneity of primary pores and pore-throats of sandstones.Secondary solution porosity of subsurface origin improves the reservoir properties of Yan-10 sandstones.The differential of authigenic minerals and asphalts in sandstone bodies create the trapping conditions updip to the east of the South Area 1 in the Maling Oil field as well as the low permeability zone bordering the oil pool between the Middle and North Areas of the Field. The effects of clay miaerals of different origin and their diagenesis on reservoir property of sandstones and on oil and watersaturation and electric response of the reservoir rocks different.And the effect of illite is far greater than that of the authigenic kaolinite.