Coupled imprints of tropical climate and recurring emergence on reservoir evolution of a mid Cretaceous carbonate ramp, Zagros Basin, southwest Iran

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 15-34

  Rahimpour Bonab, H ^a   Mehrabi, H ^a   Enayati Bidgoli, A H ^a   Omidvar, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Abteymour Oilfield; Eogenetic telogenetic diagenesis; Microfacies analysis; Paragenetic sequence; Sarvak carbonate reservoir; Tropical climate

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RAMP; CRETACEOUS; DIAGENESIS; FACIES ANALYSIS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MICROFACIES; OIL FIELD; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SYSTEMS TRACT;

IRAN; ZAGROS BASIN;

EID: 84861896510     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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