Palaeohydrology of hydrocarbon maturation, migration and accumulation in the Dead Sea rift

Basin Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-93

  Gvirtzman, Haim ^a   Stanislavsky, E ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON ENTRAPMENT; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; NEOGENE; QUATERNARY; THERMAL MATURITY;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0034164036     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2000.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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