Clay composition and diagenesis in organic-rich shale: A case study of Duvernay Formation, West Canadian Sedimentary Basin
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Abstract
Clay minerals such as illite and smectite are common constituents of sedimentary rocks, especially mudstones, and have a significant influence on the reservoir geomechanical and petrophysical properties (Boles, 1979; Brown et al., 2001; Tolhurst et al., 2002; Dong et al., 2018). The illite content of mixed-layer clays can be used to calibrate the thermal history of the basin (Pevear, 1999). These factors make clay mineral and related reactions important in petroleum development and exploration. Hower et al. (1976) showed that smectite-rich mixed-layer clay converts to illite-rich clay with increasing burial depth and temperature in Gulf Coast sediments. However, our examination of clay minerals in the organic-rich shale of the Upper Devonian Duvernay Formation in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin reveals patterns of clay diagenesis that are inconsistent with Gulf of Mexico models. Our study examines whether the illite-smectite conversion model developed for organic-lean shales applies to organic- rich shales and considers other factors that may affect this conversion. Two alternative hypotheses are considered: that smectite never entered the basin, or the smectite converted to illite at abnormal shallow depth through microbial catalysis.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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