Fluid migration and coal-rank development in foreland basins

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 679-682

  Gayer, Rod ^a   Garven, Grant ^b   Rickard, David ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACITE; BITUMINOUS COAL; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

FLUID DISCHARGE; FLUID MIGRATION; FORELAND BASIN; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; LATE PALEOZOIC; SURFACE HEAT FLOW; THERMAL REGIMES; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS; COAL RANK DEVELOPMENT; FORELAND BASINS; SOUTH WALES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOLOGY;

BITUMINOUS COAL; COAL RANK; FLUID FLOW; FORELAND BASIN; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; HEAT FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOZOIC; THERMAL REGIME;

SOUTH WALES; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 0032147922     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0679:FMACRD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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