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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.