Tectonic subsidence history and thermal evolution of the Orange Basin

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 565-584

  Hirsch, Katja K ^a   Scheck Wenderoth, Magdalena ^a   van Wees, Jan Diederik ^b   Kuhlmann, Gesa ^a   Paton, Douglas A ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backstripping; Forward models; Orange Basin; Subsidence; Tectonic history; Thermal modelling

Indexed keywords

BACKSTRIPPING; BREAK-UP; CENOZOIC; CLASSICAL EXAMPLE; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; CRUSTAL THINNING; FORWARD MODELS; HEAT FLOWS; HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL; INVERSION MODELS; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STUDY AREAS; TECTONIC HISTORY; TECTONIC UPLIFT; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL MODELLING; UNDERPLATING;

HYDROCARBONS; TECTONICS; WELLS;

SUBSIDENCE;

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRUSTAL THINNING; HEAT FLOW; HYDROCARBON RESERVE; RIFTING; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOURCE ROCK; SUBSIDENCE; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL MATURITY; UNDERPLATING; VOLCANISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ORANGE BASIN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77549087007     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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