Fault and conduit controlled burial dolomitization of the Devonian west-central Alberta Deep Basin

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-129

  Green, Darryl G ^a   Mountjoy, Eric W ^b  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE MINERALS; CRYSTALS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; MORPHOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

BASIN FLUID FLOW; CONDUIT CONTROLLED BURIAL DOLOMITIZATION; CRYSTAL SIZE; FAULT CONTROLLED BURIAL DOLOMITIZATION; SEISMIC EVIDENCE;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); DEVONIAN; DOLOMITIZATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27144494192     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/53.2.101     Document Type: Article

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