Quartz veins record vertical flow at a Graben edge: Fulmar oil field, central North Sea

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2024-2035

  Macaulay, Calum I ^a,c,d   Boyce, Adrian J ^a,b,c   Fallick, Anthony E ^a,b,d,e,f   Haszeldine, R Stuart ^b  

^a SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d LINK Hydrocarbons Reservoirs Prog ^*

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Isotope Geosciences Unit

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM; OIL FIELDS; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); QUARTZ; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

CHALCEDONY; DOLOMITE; GRABEN EDGE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; QUARTZ VEINS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

EID: 0031365910     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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