Beef veins and thrust detachments in Early Cretaceous source rocks, foothills of Magallanes-Austral Basin, southern Chile and Argentina: Structural evidence for fluid overpressure during hydrocarbon maturation

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 250-261

  Zanella, Alain ^a   Cobbold, Peter R ^a   Rojas, Lisandro ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Enap Sipetrol   (Chile)

Author keywords

Beef veins; Fluid overpressure; Magallanes Austral basin; Source rocks; Thrust detachments

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DEFORMATION; HYDROCARBONS; MEATS; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; QUARTZ; SEISMOLOGY;

DEFORMATION FRONT; FLUID OVERPRESSURE; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; LOW-GRADE METAMORPHISM; MAGALLANES-AUSTRAL BASIN; SOURCE ROCKS; STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE; THRUST DETACHMENTS;

ROCKS;

CRETACEOUS; FLUID PRESSURE; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; MATURATION; METAMORPHISM; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; QUARTZ VEIN; SOURCE ROCK; THRUST;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; AUSTRAL BASIN; CHILE; SANTA CRUZ [ARGENTINA]; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(ARC) SOUTH AMERICA];

VICUGNA VICUGNA;

EID: 84901627695     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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