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Geoscience ›› 2025, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (04): 1169-1179.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2025.016

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Diagenetic Evolution and Distribution of Brine Reservoirs in the 4th to 5th Members of the Jialingjiang Formation, Puguang Area, Northeastern Sichuan

MA Qiankun1,2,3(), CUI Xinyu2, SU Kui2, WU Kunming1,3, ZHANG Yongsheng2, SHANG Wenjun2   

  1. 1. Changsha Uranium Geology Research Institute, CNNC, Changsha, Hunan 410007, China
    2. Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
    3. Hunan Engineering and Technology Research Center for Evaluation and Comprehensive Utilization of Associated Radioactive Mineral Resources, Changsha, Hunan 410007, China
  • Online:2025-08-10 Published:2025-08-27

Abstract:

The 4th to 5th Members of the Early Triassic Jialingjiang Formation in the Puguang area, northeastern Sichuan, were deposited in a shallow epicontinental sea under a regressive environment, characterized by thick, unevenly interbedded carbonate rocks and evaporites. Previous studies have shown that the enrichment of lithium-rich potassium brine is closely related to the distribution of brine reservoirs, but this relationship has not been verified through diagenetic processes and evolutionary sequences, resulting in a critical gap in understanding the genetic mechanism of brines in the Jialingjiang Formation. Establishing the coupling relationship between diagenetic evolution of the Jialingjiang Formation and brine reservoir distribution is crucial for analyzing and exploring high-quality lithium-rich potassium brine.Based on analyses of typical diagenesis and diagenetic stage division of the 4th to 5th Members of the Jialingjiang Formation in the Puguang area using newly drilled Well CXD1, constructive diagenetic processes favorable for reservoir development in the study area include dissolution, metasomatism, and stress fracturing. These processes form reservoir spaces mainly consisting of structural fractures, intergranular dissolved pores, and intercrystalline dissolved pores.Comprehensive analyses of reservoir physical properties, single-well reservoir evaluation, and inter-well correlation indicate that there is a concentrated area of high-quality TypeⅡreservoirs in the Puguang area. The reservoir rock is a set of dissolved-pore dolomite, vertically developed in the gray-dolomite flat sedimentary microfacies of the T1 j 5 4 - 5 substage, with stable northeastward extension. Planar distribution of these reservoirs is “inverted flask-shaped”, concentrated in the central-western and southern parts of Puguang.

Key words: Jialingjiang Formation, brine reservoir, diagenetic evolution, Puguang Area

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