Macerals Characteristics of Black Argillite from Paleozoic Marine-continental Transitional Facies and Evaluation on their Gas-generating Potentiality
- Received Date: 1994-10-15
- Publish Date: 1995-06-10
Abstract: Black argillite samples from North China and Lower Yangtze Region are selected to study in detail by methods of organic petrology. Organic matters of North China samples are mainly from terrestrial plant, and those of Lower Yangtze samples mainly derived from water plant. Exinite in argillite has estuary configration, it shows that exinite has generated a large amount of gas in maturation process. Thus, exinite of argillite plays an important role in gas resource of North China.Gas-generating indices (GI) are put forward on the basis of the maceral composition and gas amount of single maceral in experiment. GI value stands for gas-generating potentail of source rocks. Gas-source rocks are divided into good, fairly good, general and poor types according to their GI values. Argillite of Lower Yangtze Region is a good gas-source rock, and that of North China is fairly good one. They have stronger gas-generating potential than coal.
Citation: | Zhao Lin, Jia Rongfen, Liu Dehan, Qin Jianzhong, Zhang Wenlong. Macerals Characteristics of Black Argillite from Paleozoic Marine-continental Transitional Facies and Evaluation on their Gas-generating Potentiality[J]. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 1995, 13(2): 105-111. |