Warm Eocene climate enhanced petroleum generation from Cretaceous source rocks: A potential climate feedback mechanism?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kroeger, K F ^a   Funnell, R H ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HYDROCARBONS; SETTLING TANKS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE WARMING; CRETACEOUS SOURCE ROCK; DEEP SEA; EARTH SURFACE TEMPERATURE; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; LIGHT HYDROCARBON; OIL AND GAS; PALEOCENE; PETROLEUM GENERATION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SOURCE ROCKS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TIME-SCALES;

EARTH (PLANET);

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CRETACEOUS; DEEP SEA; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOGENE; PETROLEUM; SOURCE ROCK; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84857278046     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050345     Document Type: Article

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