Overpressure development in rift basins: An example from the Malay Basin, offshore Peninsular Malaysia

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-180

  Madon, Mazlan ^a  

^a PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Basin modelling; Disequilibrium compaction; Overpressure; Overpressure compartment; Rift basins

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRESSURE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; OVERPRESSURE; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TERTIARY; TRANSGRESSION; TRANSITION ZONE; TRANSTENSION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAY PENINSULA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 34249813434     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079307-744     Document Type: Article

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