Organic-inorganic interactions in petroleum-producing sedimentary basins

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6964, 2003, Pages 327-333

  Seewald, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ORGANIC MATTER; PETROLEUM GEOCHEMISTRY;

PETROLEUM DEPOSITS;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; KETONE DERIVATIVE; MINERAL; NATURAL GAS; OIL; ORGANIC MATTER; PETROLEUM; WATER;

HYDROCARBON GENERATION; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SOURCE ROCK;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COVALENT BOND; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENT; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OXIDATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEDIMENTATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; VOLATILIZATION;

EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDANTS; PETROLEUM; POROSITY;

EID: 0344875017     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02132     Document Type: Review

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