Hydrocarbon potential of the middle Eocene-middle Miocene Mesohellenic piggy-back basin (central Greece): A case study

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 811-824

  Kontopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Fokianou, Teresa ^b   Zelilidis, Abraham ^a   Alexiadis, Christos ^b   Rigakis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Explor Exploitation H   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Hydrocarbon potential; Kerogen; Piggy back basin; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; KEROGEN; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TERTIARY;

GREECE;

EID: 0033384490     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(99)00031-8     Document Type: Article

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