Mobile shale in the Niger Delta: Characteristics, structure, and evolution

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 93, 2010, Pages 145-161

  Wiener, Richard W ^a   Mann, Michael G ^b   Angelich, Michael Terry ^b   Molyneux, Joseph B ^b  

^a Exxon Mobil   (United Kingdom)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DETACHMENT FAULT; DETACHMENT FOLD; DIAPIRISM; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; SHALE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA;

EID: 84858834420     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/13231313M933423     Document Type: Article

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