Characteristics and Consequences of Red Bed Bleaching by Hydrocarbon Migration: A Natural Example From the Entrada Sandstone, Southern Utah

Abstract Extensive regions of yellow and white (“bleached”) sandstones within the terrestrial Jurassic red bed deposits of the Colorado Plateau reflect widespread interaction with subsurface reduced fluids which resulted in the dissolution of iron‐oxide grain coatings. Reduced fluids such as hydroca...

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Main Authors: Lydia R. Bailey, Henrik Drake, Martin J. Whitehouse, Peter W. Reiners
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-08-01
Series:Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010465