The timing of cementation in the Rotliegend sandstones of the southern North Sea: a petrological and fluid inclusion study of cements

Journal of Petroleum Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 311-327

  McNeil, B ^a,b   Shaw, H F ^b   Rankin, A H ^b,c  

^a GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; PETROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CEMENTATION; DOLOMITES; FLUID INCLUSION MICROTHERMOMETRY;

SANDSTONE;

CEMENTATION; GAS MIGRATION; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0032122299     PISSN: 01416421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-5457.1998.tb00784.x     Document Type: Article

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