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Rifts and passive margins : structural architecture, thermal regimes, and petroleum systems /

This is a comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art information on vitally important hydrocarbon habitats for advanced geology students and researchers, exploration geoscientists, and petroleum managers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nemčok, Michal (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Basic description of structural styles in rift and passive margin settings, including extension directions and key structural elements
  • Mechanics of rifting and transition to drift phases
  • Determination of unstretched continental, thinned continental, proto-oceanic, and oceanic crustal boundaries
  • Determination of timing of rift and continental breakup events
  • The role of lithospheric composition and compositional variations in evolving rift margin architectural development and in breakup locations
  • The role of preexisting anisotropy in structural styles in rifts and passive margins
  • The role of syn-extensional deposition and erosion in evolving structural styles of rifts and passive margins and the effects of tectonic on deposition and erosional patterns
  • Fluid flow systems associated with oceanic hot spots, oceanic transforms, continental transforms, and rifts
  • The role of pre-rift heat flow in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • The role of structural and stratigraphic architecture in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • The role of syn-rift deposition and erosion in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • The role of deformation in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • The role of fluid flow in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • Introduction to hydrocarbons in rift and passive margin settings
  • Models of source rock distribution, maturation, and expulsion in rift and passive margin settings
  • Models of reservoir quality distribution
  • Sealing characteristics
  • Models of hydrocarbon migration
  • Trapping styles
  • Hydrocarbon perservation.