Synsedimentary dolospar cementation: a possible Devonian example in the Camsell Formation, Northwest Territories, Canada1

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Author: MORROW, DAVID W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1990
• Subjects: Northwest Territories
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1990.tb00633.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-3091.1990.tb00633.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1990.tb00633.x

ABSTRACT A unique association of beds containing fenestral pore‐filling medium crystalline dolomite with beds of dolospar and quartz sandstone occurs in the Lower Devonian Camsell Formation. Many of these sandstones consist almost entirely of dolospar sand. Sedimentological, petrographic, cathodoluminescent and chemical data indicate that the dolospar sands consist of grains that have been eroded and reworked during Camsell deposition from fenestral dolostone beds that directly underlie these sandstones. Erosional truncation of individual dolomite crystals and of intracrystalline cathodoluminescent zonations along the edges of sand grains indicates that either dolomitization, or dolomite cementation of the pore‐filling carbonate cements within fenestrae of the fenestral fabrics, occurred before erosion and deposition of dolospar sand. The fine details of the cathodoluminescent zonations suggest that the pore‐filling fenestral dolomite originated as primary cements that underwent some annealing recrystallization under the influence of high subsurface temperatures. This unique occurrence may document synsedimentary Devonian cementation by medium to coarsely crystalline dolomite.