Exhumed hydrocarbon traps in East Greenland: Analogs for the Lower-Middle Jurassic play of Northwest Europe

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 196-221

  Price, Simon P ^b   Whitham, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR DEPOSITS; HYDROCARBONS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; POROSITY; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SANDSTONE;

MUDSTONE; OIL ACCUMULATION; SEALING ELEMENTS; SOLID BITUMEN; STYLOLITES;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

FAULT SEAL; HYDROCARBON ENTRAPMENT; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; JURASSIC; MUDSTONE;

GREENLAND, TRAILL O;

EID: 0031076294     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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