Petroleum potential and oil-source correlation in the Great South and Canterbury Basins

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 405-423

  Killops, S D ^a   Cook, R A ^a   Sykes, R ^a   Boudou, J P ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Canterbury Basin; Carbon isotopes; Coals; Cretaceous; Great South Basin; Petroleum source rocks; Rock Eval; Waipawa Black Shale

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; COAL; CRETACEOUS; HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL; SOURCE ROCK;

PACIFIC, CANTERBURY BASIN; PACIFIC, GREAT SOUTH BASIN;

EID: 0031417773     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1997.9514773     Document Type: Article

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