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A new type of quartz, a nano-quartz consisting of spherical particles, is assumed to have formed by crystallization in the sea during sedimentation of the chalk in the North Sea and to have remained largely intact during burial diagenesis. The presence and nature of this nano-quartz have not been identified until recently, despite the fact that this quartz is the type present in the Upper Cretaceous-Danian chalk reservoir for oil and gas in the North Sea, both in the flint and as dispersed particles.In the present work detailed structural analysis of the nano-quartz has been carried out by X-ray diffraction, solid-state  29 Si and  27 Al MAS NMR, thermal analysis including water release, IR-absorption spectroscopy, and elemental analysis supplemented with analysis of oxygen isotope composition. It is found that  IV Al substitutes for Si and that  VI Al probably is bonded to hydroxyls on the particle surface of the nano-quartz structures. The charge compensation of tetrahedral Al 3+ , in addition to its conventional way of compensation by formation of the local structural arrangement [AlO 4 /M + ]° defects (M +  = H + , Na, K, Li), can occur at the expense of the OH -  group coordinating one of the four tetrahedral Si 4 + nearest to the Al 3 + tetrahedron. The most significant feature of the North Sea nano-quartz deduced in the present investigation is the presence of [4H] Si  defects, also known as hydrogarnet defects. This defect is present in up to 5% of the tetrahedral sites, whereas Al 3 + occupies less than 1% of the tetrahedral sites. Two types of distribution of the [4H] Si  defects were determined. In one of them the [4H]  Si  defects aggregates parallel to the (0001) plane to form platelets as cracks with hydroxylated surfaces on both sides. The second type of [4H] Si  defect occurs in the form of isolated tetrahedral vacant sites.The formation of the aggregated [4H] Si  platelets lying in the (0001) plane mostly increases the  c  parameters of the structure, whereas the isolated [4H] Si  defects and K+Na impurities contribute to increasing the  a  parameters.

Structural characterization of marine nano-quartz in chalk and flint from North Sea Tertiary chalk reservoirs for oil and gas