Petroleum charge history in the Lunnan Low Uplift, Tarim Basin, China - Evidence from oil-bearing fluid inclusions

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1341-1355

  Gong, Se ^a,c   George, Simon C ^b   Volk, Herbert ^a   Liu, Keyu ^a   Peng, Ping'an ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID INCLUSION; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MOLECULAR COMPOSITION; QUANTITATIVE GRAIN FLUORESCENCE (QGF);

BIODEGRADATION; FLUORESCENCE;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

BIODEGRADATION; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRUDE OIL; FLUID INCLUSION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; ORDOVICIAN; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SOURCE ROCK; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LUNNAN FIELD; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 34547101229     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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