Outline of topics (as of 9/26/02)
Part I: Introduction and basic concepts
1. Overview: Basic concepts, diagenetic regimes, transfer processes, significance
2. Fluid-mineral reactions: Thermodynamics
3. Reaction kinetics and mass transfer
Part II: Analytical tools
4. Microanalysis: SEM, cathodoluminescence (R. Jones, Stanford GES)
5. SEM demonstration (R. Jones); microscopic techniques
6. Application of stable isotopes to mineral diagenesis
7. Strontium isotopes as a natural tracer for basinal mass transfer
8. Overview over powder X-ray diffraction techniques
9. Fluid inclusion analysis of diagenetic mineral phases
Part III: Diagenetic regimes
10. Early marine diagenesis
11. Clastic diagenesis
12. Diagenesis of siliceous sediments
13. Diagenesis of carbonates
14. Organic matter diagenesis and catagenesis (M. Moldowan, Stanford GES, 11/14/02)
Part IV. Advanced concepts
15. Scale and rates of diagenetic transfer processes
16. Three case studies: Alteration and fracture-controlled fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation; Fluid seeps and carbonate authigenesis in the Santa Barbara Basin; Alteration and fluid flow in faulted sandstone reservoirs of southern Utah and Nevada
17. Diagenesis of Alaska North Slope reservoirs (J. R. Boles; UC Santa Barbara, 11/7/02)
18. Petrophysical aspects of diagenesis (M. Prasad, Stanford GP, 11/21/02)
19. Microbes and diagenesis (V. Orphan, NASA Ames, TBA)
20. Diagenesis and rock deformation

no classes: November 28 (Thanksgiving)
Credit based on class participation (incl. reading assignments); for letter grade: 3 text page (double-spaced) term paper on diagenetic aspects of thesis project (if applicable) or other topic of interest;
all registered students meet individually with instructor during the 2nd week of October (sign up for 15" slots) to discuss term paper topic and individual class/research interests
additional reading: "Diagenesis": McIlreath, I. A., and Morrow, D. W., 1990 (out of print), on reserve at Branner.
reading assignments TBA