The shale gas potential of Tournaisian, Visean, and Namurian black shales in North Germany: Baseline parameters in a geological context

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3817-3837

  Kerschke, Dorit I ^a   Schulz, Hans Martin ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black shale; Lower Carboniferous; Organic carbon; Shale gas; Thermal maturity

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALES; CONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBONS; KEROGEN TYPE; LOWER CARBONIFEROUS; NAMURIAN; PETROLEUM POTENTIAL; SHALE GAS; THERMAL MATURITY;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; KEROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEA LEVEL;

SHALE;

BASELINE SURVEY; BLACK SHALE; BOREHOLE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; NAMURIAN; ORGANIC CARBON; THERMAL MATURITY; TOURNAISIAN; VISEAN;

GERMANY;

EID: 84888344467     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2745-9     Document Type: Article

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