A Comparative Study of Shale Sedimentology: Relationships Between Sedimentary Environment and Shale Fabric

这是一个全面的研究页岩细观和微观组构， 一套来自各种气候和盆地类型的页岩单元。 所有的页岩单元都包含着广泛的沉积环境 从陆地到盆地 所研究的单位被选定为 在良好的地层控制基础上， 沉积学研究 页岩组构代表了 记录运输，沉积和埋葬这些的历史 细粒岩石 目前存在严重的综合性不足。 页岩单元的岩相学和沉积学案例研究，以及 页岩组构特征的环境意义仍然是 不太了解。 比较全系列的中、 微组构特征， 一套经过充分研究的页岩单元将使我们能够识别 环境显著特征（或其组合），以及 过滤掉当地因素（由于气候，生物控制， 盆地类型等）。 从这项研究的数据将有利于织物的努力 分类，将建立中间织物和 微结构特征，可能会导致识别 环境特定织物组合和相关织物 功能到基本流程，并最终导致 在盆地分析研究中有相当大的改进。

This a comprehensive study of shale meso- and microfabrics on a suite of shale units from a variety of climates and basin types. All shale units contain a wide range of sedimentary environments from terrestrial to basinal. The units under study were selected on the basis of good stratigraphic control and prior sedimentological studies. Shale fabrics represent the cumulative record of the history of transport, deposition, and burial of these fine-grained rocks. There is presently a severe deficiency of comprehensive petrographic and sedimentological case studies of shale units, and the environmental significance of shale fabric features is still poorly understood. Comparing the full range of meso- and microfabric features from equivalent sedimentary environments in a suite of well studied shale units will allow us to identify environmentally significant features (or combinations thereof), and to filter out local factors (due to climate, biological control, basin type etc.). Data from this study will benefit efforts of fabric classification, will establish correlations between mesofabric and microfabric features, will probably lead to the recognition of environmentally specific fabric associations and relate fabric features to basic processes, and will ultimately lead to considerable refinements in basin analysis studies.