Transverse segmentation of the Baram-Balabac Basin, NW Borneo: Refining the model of Borneo's tectonic evolution

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-29

  Cullen, Andrew B ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Baram basin; Borneo; Petroleum systems; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BARAM BASIN; BOUNDARY ZONES; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUSTAL BLOCK; CURRENT MODELS; DEEP STRUCTURE; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; DOMAIN BOUNDARY; EARLY OLIGOCENE; EXPLORATION EFFORT; FAR-FIELD; FAULT SYSTEM; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; FORELAND BASIN; GEOLOGICAL ELEMENTS; GRAVITY DATA; GROWTH FAULT; HYBRID MODEL; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CRUST; OLIGOCENE; ONSHORE GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM SYSTEMS; PLIOCENE; SARAWAK; SHELF EDGES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SHORTENING; TECTONIC STRESS; WESTERN SIDE;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM REFINING; SANDSTONE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; GAS FIELD; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PLIOCENE; SANDSTONE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UNCONFORMITY;

BALABAC STRAIT; BARAM BASIN; BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; MIMAROPA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALAWAN [MIMAROPA]; PHILIPPINES; SABAH; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 77949370328     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-828     Document Type: Article

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