Fluid flow reconstruction in karstified Panormide platform limestones (north-central Sicily): Implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Sicilian fold and thrust belt

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 939-958

  Dewever, B ^a   Berwouts, I ^a   Swennen, R ^a   Breesch, L ^b   Ellam, R M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluid flow; Karst; Microthermometry; Oil migration; Sicily; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BROKEN DOWN; BURIAL HISTORY; CALCITE-CEMENT; DIAGENETICS; DOLOMITIZATION; FLUID FLOW; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; KARST SYSTEM; KARSTIFICATION; LIMESTONE DISSOLUTION; LOW SALINITY; MICROTHERMOMETRY; OIL MIGRATION; OLIGOCENE; PLIOCENE; SALINE FLUIDS; SHALLOW WATERS; SR ISOTOPE RATIO; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ABSTRACTING; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CEMENTS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; FLUIDS; HYDROCARBONS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LIMESTONE; MINERALOGY; PETROGRAPHY; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; CEMENTATION; CRETACEOUS; DIAGENESIS; DISSOLUTION; DOLOMITIZATION; FLUID FLOW; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; KARSTIFICATION; LIMESTONE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PARAGENESIS; PETROGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; SPELEOTHEM; UNCONFORMITY;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 77950521152     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.10.018     Document Type: Article

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