Controls on reservoir quality of an Upper Jurassic reef mound in the Palmers Wood Field area, Weald Basin, southern England

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 497-515

  Sun, S Qing ^a   Wright, V Paul ^b,c  

^a Carbonates International Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL MICROBIAL REEF MOUND;

COMPACTION; LEACHING; POROSITY; REEFS; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC; REEF MOUND; RESERVOIR QUALITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

UK, ENGLAND;

EID: 0344972996     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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