Origin of petroliferous bitumen from the Büyük Menderes-Gediz geothermal graben system, Denizli - Sarayköy, western Turkey

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1393-1415

  Gürgey, Kadir ^a   Simoneit, Bernd R T ^b   Bati, Zühtü ^c   Karamanderesi, Ismail H ^d   Varol, Baki ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TURKISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (Turkey)

^d Ankara University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROCARBONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OIL WELL DRILLING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

GEOTHERMAL GRADUAL; HYDROTHERMAL RAPID; THERMAL WATER;

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS;

BITUMEN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GRABEN; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; PETROLEUM;

EURASIA; MENDERES BASIN; TURKEY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34250676047     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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