Burial metamorphism (thermal maturation) in Cretaceous sediments of the southern Benue Trough and Anambra Basin, Nigeria

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1191-1206

  Akande, Samuel O ^a,c   Erdtmann, Bernd D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL METAMORPHISM; INTRUSIVES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC SUCCESSION; SOUTHERN NIGERIA; THERMAL MATURATION;

COAL; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MINERALS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

BURIAL METAMORPHISM; CRETACEOUS; THERMAL MATURATION;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0032101507     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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