The configuration of the basement beneath the Zagros Basin

Journal of Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 257-282

  Bahroudi, A ^a   Talbot, C J ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; DEPOSITION; GAS INDUSTRY;

FACIES BOUNDARIES;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

BASEMENT ROCK; DEFORMATION; FAULT; HYDROCARBON RESERVE; ISOPACH MAP; PHANEROZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; TECTONIC SETTING;

IRAN; ZAGROS BASIN;

EID: 0041822101     PISSN: 01416421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-5457.2003.tb00030.x     Document Type: Article

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