The role of depositional setting and diagenesis on the reservoir quality of Devonian sandstones from the Solimões Basin, Brazilian Amazonia

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1047-1071

  Lima, Rodrigo Dias ^a   De Ros, Luiz Fernando ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Reservoir quality; Sandstone diagenesis; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOSITION; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; POROSITY; QUARTZ; SHALE;

CEMENTATION;

SANDSTONE;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEVONIAN; DIAGENESIS; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOLIMOES BASIN;

EID: 0036876721     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(03)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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