Surface-piercing salt domes of interior North Oman, and their significance for the Ara carbonate 'stringer' hydrocarbon play

GeoArabia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-270

  Peters, Jeroen M ^a   Filbrandt, Jacek B ^a   Grotzinger, John P ^b   Newall, Mark J ^a   Shuster, Mark ^a   Al Siyabi, Hisham A ^a  

^a PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DIAPIR; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; SALT DOME; SEISMIC DATA; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

(NORTH); OMAN;

EID: 0037653586     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia0802231     Document Type: Article

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