Aromatic biomarkers as indicators of source, depositional environment, maturity and secondary migration in the oils of Cambay Basin, India

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1620-1630

  Sivan, Perumal ^a   Datta, Gour C ^a   Singh, Ram R ^a  

^a ONGC   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OILS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIBENZOTHIOPHENE; DIBENZOTHIOPHENE/PHENANTHRENE; HIGHER PLANTS; NEW GENERATION; NORTH CAMBAY BASIN; OLEANANE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIC CONDITIONS; PALEOCENE; PYRROLIC NITROGEN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STRUCTURAL DEGRADATION; THERMAL MATURITY; TRITERPENOIDS; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ISOMERS; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

BIOMARKER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE; EXPLORATION; OIL; PALEOCENE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL MATURITY;

ASIA; CAMBAY BASIN; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 53249111253     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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