Mineralogical control on mudstone compaction: A study of late cretaceous to early tertiary mudstones of the Vøring and Møre basins, Norwegian Sea

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-138

  Peltonen, Christer ^a   Marcussen, Øyvind ^a   Bjørlykke, Knut ^a   Jahren, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clay mineralogy; Diagenesis; Shales; Smectite; XRD

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLAY MINERALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MINERALOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CLAY MINERAL; COMPACTION; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DIAGENESIS; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; MINERALOGY; MUDSTONE; ROCK PROPERTY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SHALE; SMECTITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 45149099996     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079308-758     Document Type: Article

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