Focused fluid flow systems of the Zhongjiannan Basin and Guangle Uplift, South China Sea

Basin Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-111

  Sun, Qiliang ^a,b   Wu, Shiguo ^a   Cartwright, Joseph ^c   Lüdmann, Thomas ^d   Yao, Genshun ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e PetroChina Hangzhou Institute of Geology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; FLOW FIELD; FLUID FLOW; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MUD VOLCANO; MULTIBEAM SONAR; OVERPRESSURE; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; POCKMARK; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPLIFT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84873080944     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2012.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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