The origin of hydrocarbon source rocks in the Austrian Mollasse Basin (Eocene-Oligocene transition)

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 683-709

  Schulz, H M ^a   Sachsenhofer, R F ^b   Bechtel, A ^b   Polesny, H ^c   Wagner, L ^c  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Paratethys; Source rock

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC RICH ROCKS;

CATCHMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; ISOTOPES; PETROGRAPHY; ROCKS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

ANOXIA; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; HYDROCARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SOURCE ROCK;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0036624044     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(02)00054-5     Document Type: Article

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