Petroleum systems in the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Basement of the Polish and Ukrainian parts of the Carpathian Foredeep

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 487-522

  Kotarba, Maciej J ^a   Wiecław, Dariusz ^a   Kosakowski, Paweł ^a   Wróbel, Magdalena ^a   Matyszkiewicz, Jacek ^a   Buła, Zbigniew ^b   Krajewski, Marcin ^a   Koltun, Yuriy V ^c   Tarkowski, Jan ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Carpathian Foredeep; Generation and expulsion areas; Palaeozoic Mesozoic basement; Petroleum system; Poland; Source rock oil gas correlations; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BASEMENT ROCK; GAS CONDENSATE; GAS WELL; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MESOZOIC; OIL WELL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PALEOZOIC; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SOURCE ROCK; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CARPATHIAN FOREDEEP; POLAND; UKRAINE;

EID: 84859626339     PISSN: 02089068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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