A Middle-Upper Miocene fluvial-lacustrine rift sequence in the Song Ba Rift, Vietnam: An analogue to oil-prone, small-scale continental rift basins

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-168

  Nielsen, L H ^a   Petersen, H I ^a   Thai, N D ^b   Duc, N A ^c   Fyhn, M B W ^d   Boldreel, L O ^d   Tuan, H A ^c   Lindstrom S ^a   Hien, L V ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b CEVIHEGEO   (Viet Nam)

^c Vietnam Petroleum Institute   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Continental rift; Fluvial lacustrine; Miocene; Oil prone; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ROCK MECHANICS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CONGLOMERATE; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; GRABEN; MIOCENE; RIFT ZONE; RIVER SYSTEM; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOURCE ROCK; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBSIDENCE; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 34249786905     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079307-748     Document Type: Article

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