Architecture of Lower Oligocene source rocks in the Alpine Foreland Basin: A model for syn- and post-depositional source-rock features in the Paratethyan realm

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-377

  Sachsenhofer, Reinhard F ^a   Schulz, H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Log facies; Molasse Basin; Oligocene; Paratethys; Source rock

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EROSION; HYDROCARBONS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS;

DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; FORELAND BASIN; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SOURCE ROCK; TECTONIC SETTING; WELL LOGGING;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; PREALPS;

PARATETHYS;

EID: 33750853594     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079306-712     Document Type: Article

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