Use of hydrogen and carbon stable isotopes characterizing oils from the Potiguar basin (onshore), northeastern Brazil

AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists)

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 496-518

  Dos Santos Neto, Eugenio Vaz ^a,b   Hayes, John M ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ctr Excellence Geochem Petrob C   (Brazil)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEUTERIUM; OIL;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLOGY;

LACUSTRINE OILS; MARINE EVAPORITIC OILS; MIXED OILS; THERMAL MATURITY;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLASSIFICATION; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; OIL FIELD; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BRAZIL; POTIGUAR BASIN;

EID: 0039700336     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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