Basu, S;
Ahmed, J;
Jones, AP;
Verchovsky, AB;
(2018)
Characterisation of carbon components and their isotopic composition in gas shales.
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Energy Procedia.
(pp. pp. 47-52).
Elsevier
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Abstract
Shales are an important reservoir of both organic and inorganic carbon that can be decoupled by incremental stepwise combustion without acid treatment. The study of shales from various depths of three cores of Haynesville-Bossier formation of Jurassic period indicates the presence of organic and inorganic carbon with comparable δ13C and nitrogen/carbon (N/C) ratios in all three. Both the isotopic and elemental ratios predominantly indicate a continental source but a minor N/C fraction corresponding to a marine/lacustrine source is also seen. This indicates either mixing from different sources and/or fractionation, perhaps due to preferential loss of nitrogen during organic matter degradation. Because some of the organic component is released at a high temperature of 1000-1200°C although ungraphitised, it may be locked up in minerals like sulphides and K-feldspars, incorporated during diagenesis and hydrothermal alteration. Carbon locked in these minerals can be isolated from the carbon cycle for a longer period of time.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Characterisation of carbon components and their isotopic composition in gas shales |
| Event: | International Carbon Conference 2018, ICC 2018, 10–14 September 2018, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.egypro.2018.07.007 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2018.07.007 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | Carbon isotopes, gas shales, organic carbon, carbonate minerals, sulphide phases |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10064970 |
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