Assessing thermal maturity of Palaeozoic rocks from reflectance of chitinozoa as constrained by geochemical indicators: An example from southern Ontario, Canada

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 907-919

  Obermajer, M ^a   Fowler, M G ^b   Goodarzi, F ^b   Snowdon, L R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Organic petrology; Thermal maturity

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ORGANIC PETROLOGY; THERMAL MATURITY;

PETROLOGY;

CHITINOZOAN; REFLECTANCE; THERMAL MATURITY;

EID: 0030435760     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(96)00036-0     Document Type: Article

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