cataclasis

Deep Fluid and Processes of Destruction and Fluidization in the Lithospheric Mantle

To date, the significance of geological processes induced by fluid activity in the crust and in the Earth’s lithosphere in general has been fully revealed. The role of fluid systems in the energy and matter flow transfer, as well as in the formation of the lithospheric deep modes, its lamination and decompression structures, becomes apparent in the light of current data.

Hydrothermal Processes in Basement Rocks of the West Siberian Oil and Gas Province

Authors: Richter Y. A.

Using Palyanovskoye oil field of Krasnoleninsk arch we demonstrated that local cataclasis and pneumatolytic-hydrothermal metasomatism manifestations are widespread in the Paleozoic basement rocks. For the first time the earliest indications of deep fluid activity were detected – at the stage of granite deep fluid saturation and primary diffuse leaching of feldspars. During transition to the infiltration process, they comprise jet-stream fibroblast structures formed due to biotite and plagioclase resorption by amphibole and scapolite association.