Thermal history of Canadian Williston Basin from apatite fission-track thermochronology - Implications for petroleum systems and geodynamic history

Tectonophysics

Volumn 349, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 221-249

  Osadetz, K G ^a   Kohn, B P ^b   Feinstein, S ^c   O'Sullivan, P B ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fission track thermochronology; Geodynamics; Petroleum systems; Thermal history; Williston Basin

Indexed keywords

FISSION TRACK DATING; GEODYNAMICS; HEAT FLOW; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; PRECAMBRIAN; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CANADA;

EID: 0036289060     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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