Organic geochemical evaluation of Cretaceous shale samples from the Orange Basin, South Africa

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1633-1642

  Adekola, S A ^a   Akinlua, A ^a   Mangelsdorf, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOMANIAN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOPANES; HYDROCARBON GENERATION POTENTIAL; HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL; ISOPRENOIDS; MATURITY LEVELS; N-ALKANES; OXYGEN INDEX; ROCK-EVAL; ROCK-EVAL PYROLYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STERANES; TERPANES; THERMAL MATURITY; TOTAL ORGANIC C; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS; TURONIAN; TYPE II;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMARKERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS;

SHALE;

BIOMARKER; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC MATTER; PYROLYSIS; SAMPLING; SHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ORANGE BASIN; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84862860694     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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