Petrographic composition and depositional environments of the Pliocene Velenje lignite seam (Slovenia)

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作者
Markic, M
Sachsenhofer, RF
机构
[1] MT UNIV LEOBEN,INST GEOWISSENSCH,A-8700 LEOBEN,AUSTRIA
[2] GEOL ZAVOD LJUBLJANA,INST GEOL GEOTEHN GEOFIZ,SLO-61000 LJUBLJANA,SLOVENIA
关键词
Slovenia; Pliocene; lignite; coal petrography; peat facies; pH value; sulphur;
D O I
10.1016/S0166-5162(96)00043-2
中图分类号
TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];
学科分类号
0807 ; 0820 ;
摘要
A Pliocene lignite seam up to 160 m thick occurs in the Velenje depression in northern Slovenia. It forms part of a non-marine transgressive sequence. Petrographic data, together with ash and sulphur content of samples from two boreholes (one located in the central, and the other in the marginal part of the seam) have been used to study vertical and lateral coal facies variations. In the central part, the lignite seam overlies fluvial sediments. Facies critical macerals and petrographic indices suggest that the lower (ash rich) part of the seam (unit I) accumulated in a wet forest swamp in an alluvial plain setting. Later this environment was replaced by a dry (telmatic) forest swamp (unit IIa). According to our interpretation, a decrease in tree density in units IIb and IIc reflects a change to a bush moor. The transition from unit II to unit m is characterized by a rapid water table rise, which resulted in the establishment of a wet (limnotelmatic) forest swamp. Within unit III, the tree density decreases and the degree of gelification increases towards the top of the seam suggesting a transition to a fen type environment. Another rapid water table rise ended peat formation in the eutrophic, topogenous mire, and established open lacustrine conditions. A calcium rich environment resulted in high pH values and is responsible for high sulphur lignites (up to 4% on a dry basis). In the upper part of the seam, the pH values were controlled by the amount of the inflowing lacustrine water. Only thin, ash-rich topotelmites accumulated along the northern margin of the mire. There, the seam originated in a wet forest swamp and was separated by Limnic and fluvial sediments from other organic rich horizons. Due to its closer vicinity to the pre-Tertiary carbonates, the depositional environment was probably even more alkaline. Therefore, the lignite shows a higher degree of gelification and is even more sulphur rich (up to 5.5% on a dry basis).
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