Geophysical evidence of deep hydrocarbon flow in Mottled Zone areas, Dead Sea Transform zone

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Khesin, Boris ^a   Vapnik, Yevgeny ^a   Itkis, Sonya ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINTEGRATION; HYDROCARBONS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIZATION; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; VOLCANOES;

FIELD MEASUREMENT; GEOLOGIC ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATION; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; ROCK PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; FORWARD MODELING; GEOMAGNETISM; GRAVITY SURVEY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; ROCK PROPERTY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

CAUCASUS; DEAD SEA; ISRAEL; JORDAN;

MUSA;

EID: 84864159697     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3375236     Document Type: Article

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