Origin of oils in the Velebit oil-gas field, SE Pannonian Basin, Serbia - Source rocks characterization based on biological marker distributions

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 118-134

  Solevic T ^a   Stojanovic K ^a   Bojesen Koefoed, J ^b   Nytoft, H P ^b   Jovancicevic B ^a   Vitorovic D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS; BIOLOGICAL MARKER DISTRIBUTIONS; MATURITY; SILICICLASTIC SOURCES;

BIOMARKERS; CATCHMENTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROCKS;

OIL FIELDS;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMARKER; CRETACEOUS; CRUDE OIL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS FIELD; LITHOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OIL FIELD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 38849110827     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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