Characterization of organic matter and depositional environment of Tertiary mudstones from the Sylhet Basin, Bangladesh

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 743-754

  Zakir Hossain, H M ^a   Sampei, Yoshikazu ^a   Roser, Barry P ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BANGLADESH; BENGAL BASIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DRILL CORE; EARLY MIOCENE; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGHER PLANTS; HIMALAYA; LATE EOCENE; LATE MIOCENE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN-POOR; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; ROCK-EVAL PYROLYSIS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SECOND PHASE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STERANE; STUDY AREAS; SUBBASIN; SULFUR CONTENTS; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; TERTIARY MUDSTONE; THIRD PHASE; THREE PHASIS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CORE DRILLING; FIRE HAZARDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN; PARAFFINS; PLANTS (BOTANY); ROCKS; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SULFUR;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOMARKER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE; EROSION; EUSTACY; MIOCENE; MUDSTONE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PYROLYSIS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STRATIGRAPHY; TERTIARY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UPLIFT;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; BENGAL; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; SOUTH ASIA; SYLHET;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 67349159378     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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