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CONCLUSIONS<br />

1. No quartz cement<strong>at</strong>ion occurs during diagenesis <strong>of</strong> the Scotland<br />

Form<strong>at</strong>ion. Quartz cement<strong>at</strong>ion as overgrowths is fractured and<br />

interpreted to be <strong>of</strong> recycled origin.<br />

2. Scotland Form<strong>at</strong>ion sediments have never been exposed to<br />

temper<strong>at</strong>ures gre<strong>at</strong>er than ~ 60 C.<br />

3. Scotland Form<strong>at</strong>ion sediments have probably been buried less than<br />

2500 m and possibly have never been buried much more deeply than<br />

1500 m.<br />

4. Sandstones within channels, lobes and levee facies have all preserved<br />

significant amounts <strong>of</strong> primary porosity and all <strong>of</strong> them have an IGV <strong>of</strong><br />

27.5% or higher.<br />

5. Cement<strong>at</strong>ion is minor and although some samples have kaolinite,<br />

chlorite and hem<strong>at</strong>ite cements th<strong>at</strong> obstruct pore thro<strong>at</strong>s, they are<br />

probably not present in large enough quantities to present a major<br />

hindrance to fluid flow.<br />

6. <strong>The</strong> sample from the levee facies sands appears to have been more<br />

compacted and this combined with these sands being the thinnest (on<br />

the scale <strong>of</strong> cms) and the least l<strong>at</strong>erally continuous <strong>of</strong> all the facies,<br />

indic<strong>at</strong>e th<strong>at</strong> these sands make the least favorable reservoirs.<br />

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