Disequilibrium compaction as the cause for Cretaceous - Paleogene overpressures in the Danish North Sea

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-180

  Vejbæk, Ole Valdemar ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

INTRAFORMATIONAL FAULTING; OVERPRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SMECTITE-DOMINATED CLAYS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

COMPACTION; CRETACEOUS; FAULTING; HOLOCENE; MUDSTONE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OVERPRESSURE; PALEOGENE; PERMEABILITY; SHALE; SMECTITE; SOURCE ROCK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 40949119938     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/10170706148     Document Type: Article

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