Authigenic chlorite coatings on detrital quartz grains influence the formation of overgrowths and preservation of porosity in the Spiro Sand, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma. Thick continuous coatings preserve porosity because pressure solution is retarded and quartz overgrowths are nonexistent. If the coatings are sparse, thin, and discontinuous, the sandstone is nonporous because of pressure solution and quartz overgrowths. Intermediate stages between these two stages are present.
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Pittman et al. (1968) studied this question.