Analytical Services

Analytical Services

Oolithica Geoscience provides the following analytical services through a combination of in-house and third party providers.  We can provide individual analysis results, or more typically incorporate the results of a targeted analytical program within a larger integrated study:

Erosional channel base and lag above swaley laminated sandstones

Clastic Sedimentology
NASA Satellite image of tidal channels cutting through the Bahamas

Carbonate Sedimentology
Large Benthic Foraminifera Packstone - Grainstone

Petrography

Rock characerisation, diagenetic history, porosity development
Thin section of limestone ditch cuttings

Cuttings Petrography

Identify facies, texture, mineralogy, authgenic cements and pore types in uncored intervals
Oil filled fluid inclusions under UV

Fluorescence Petrography

Identification of petroleum fluid inclusions, ghost fabrics, cement zones.
Pore-lining Fe-chlorite platelets have seeded on clay floccules forming rosettes, which. result in high Sw and low permeability, Lower Goru, Pakistan

SEM

Cement history, clay type and morphology, pore system description
Cathodoluminescence image of zoned calcite

Cathodoluminescence

Identify cement history from zoning in authigenic cements
Two-phase fluid inclusions with highly variable liquid : vapour ratios including some methane gas inclusions , Lower Tertiary, Salt Range, Pakistan

Fluid Inclusions

Determine salinity and temperature of cement parent-fluids
X-Ray Diffraction pattern

X-Ray Diffraction

Whole Rock or Clay Fraction Quantitative Composition
Oxygen isotope trends associated with fluctuating periods of Phanezoic of Global greenhouse and icehouse climate

Isotopes

Radiogenic and stable isotope analyses
Rock sample elemental analysis and geochemistry

Elemental Analysis

ICP-OES, ICP-MS and XRF
Oxfordian - Early Kimmeridgian calcareous dinocyst Commitosphaera czestochowiensis, present in Diyab source rock and basinal Hanifa of eastern Arabia

Thin Section Biostratigraphy

Conventional fossil groups and stromatoporoids, calcareous dinocysts and microproblematica