Gas maturity and alteration systematics across the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin from four mud gas isotope depth profiles

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1857-1868

  Tilley, Barbara ^a   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-FORMATIONAL HOMOGENIZATION; GAS CRACKING; OVERTHRUST ZONE; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS;

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; COMPOSITION; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

SETTLING TANKS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CRETACEOUS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL GAS; OIL SAND; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN CANADA SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

EID: 33845207418     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.08.010     Document Type: Article

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