Deprecated: Function get_magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated in /home/isthin5/public_html/addon-domains/speleogenesis.info/include/functions1.php on line 943
Abstract:
The Culberson sulfur-barite deposit is located in Culberson county, West Texas. Geologically, it is occurred ill Delaware sedimentary, petroleum and natural gas basin. There are several sulfur-barite deposits occurring in the basin, Culberson is the largest one. Culberson deposit is hosted by Upper Permian Castile and Salado formation. The Castile and Salodo formation consist of limestone with thin layers of evaporate and organic materials. Natural sulfur and barite is formed post diagenesis, filled into the palco karst and replaced the internal layers of anhydrite. Two generation fluid inclusions are found: I. Fluid inclusion formed during the diagenesis, and II. Fluid inclusion trapped during the authigenic calcite, barite overgrowth. According to the phases and composition at room temperature, the fluid inclusions could be divided into: one phase liquid inclusion; two phases vapor and liquid inclusion, and oil inclusion. In a same growth zone of calcite, several types of fluid inclusions, such as one phase liquid, different vapor/liquid ratio inclusions and oil inclusions occurred. These inclusions are hardly to he used to gel the temperature of homogenization, since they are formed in heterogeneous trapping or an immiscibility environment. The eutectic temperatures of fluid inclusions range from -18 to -24 degrees C, indicating life fluid belongs to a NaCl-H2O system, with the salinity ranges from 2% to 10%, and co-existing with the oil inclusions, these show that the ore forming fluid is an oil filed brine and with temperature less than 100 degrees C