Thermochemical sulphate reduction in the Upper Devonian Cairn Formation of the 
Fairholme carbonate complex (South-West Alberta, Canadian Rockies): evidence 
from fluid inclusions and isotopic data

Vandeginste, Veerle; Swennen, Rudy; Gleeson, S. A.; Ellam, Rob M.; Osadetz, Kirk; Roure, François

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00978.x

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Thermochemical sulphate reduction in the Upper Devonian Cairn Formation of the Fairholme carbonate complex (South-West Alberta, Canadian Rockies): evidence from fluid inclusions and isotopic data

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Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Gleeson, S. A., Ellam, R. M., Osadetz, K., Roure, F. (2009): Thermochemical sulphate reduction in the Upper Devonian Cairn Formation of the Fairholme carbonate complex (South-West Alberta, Canadian Rockies): evidence from fluid inclusions and isotopic data. - Sedimentology, 56, 2, 439-460.
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The Fairholme carbonate complex is part of the extensively dolomitized Upper Devonian carbonate reefs in west-central Alberta. The studied formations contain moulds (up to 10 cm in diameter), which are filled partially with (saddle) dolomite, quartz and calcite cements. These cements precipitated from a mixture of brines that acquired high salinity by dissolution of halite and brines derived from evaporated sea water. The fluids were warm (homogenization temperature of primary fluid inclusions of 76 to 200 degrees C) and saline (20 to 25 wt% NaCl equivalent) and testify to thermochemical sulphate reduction processes. The latter is deduced from S in solid inclusions, CO(2) and H(2)S in volatile-rich aqueous inclusions and depleted delta(13)C values down to -26 parts per thousand Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite. High (87)Sr/(86)Sr values (0.7094 to 0.7110) of the cements also indicate interaction of the fluids with siliciclastic sequences. The thermochemical sulphate reduction-related cements probably formed during early Laramide burial. Another (younger) calcite phase, characterized by depleted delta(18)O values (-23.9 parts per thousand to -13.9 parts per thousand Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite), low Na (27 to 37 p.p.m.) and Sr (39 to 150 p.p.m.) concentrations and non-saline (similar to 0 wt% NaCl equivalent) fluid inclusions, is attributed to post-Laramide meteoric water.