The importance of constraining regional exhumation in basin modelling: A hydrocarbon maturation history of the Ghadames Basin, North Africa

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-270

  Underdown, R ^a   Redfern, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algeria; Alpine; Burial history analysis; Frasnian; Ghadames basin; Hercynian; Hydrocarbon maturation; Libya; Tanezzuft

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDROCARBONS; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN; EXHUMATION; FRASNIAN; HYDROCARBON; MATURATION; MODELING; MUDSTONE; SOURCE ROCK; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; BERKINE BASIN; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 34548186983     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079306-714     Document Type: Article

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