Short-chain (C21 and C22) diasteranes in petroleum and source rocks as indicators of maturity and depositional environment

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2653-2667

  Requejo, A G ^a,b   Hieshima, G B ^b   Hsu, C S ^b   McDonald, T J ^a   Sassen, R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIASTERANE; HYDROCARBON; MATURITY; SOURCE ROCK;

CANADA, WESTERN CANADA BASIN;

EID: 0031453914     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00106-3     Document Type: Article

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