Upper Triassic-Middle Jurassic stratigraphy and sedimentology in the NE Qaidam Basin, NW China: Petroleum geological significance of new outcrop and subsurface data

Journal of Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 429-450

  Yang, Yongtai ^a   Ritts, B ^b   Zou, Caineng ^a   Xu, Tianguang ^c   Zhang, Baomin ^a   Xi, Ping ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEKETE ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

^d China Petroleum Engineering Qinghai Company   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL DRILLING; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

MESOZOIC ROCKS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MESOZOIC; RESERVOIR ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN;

EID: 0242655284     PISSN: 01416421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-5457.2003.tb00037.x     Document Type: Article

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