Geochemical assessment of hydrocarbon migration phenomena: Case studies from the south-western margin of the Dead Sea Basin

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 211-228

  Sokol, Ella ^a,b   Kozmenko, Olga ^a   Smirnov, Sergey ^a,b,c   Sokol, Ivan ^b,d   Novikova, Sofya ^a   Tomilenko, Anatoliy ^a   Kokh, Svetlana ^a   Ryazanova, Tatyana ^e   Reutsky, Vadim ^a   Bul'bak, Taras ^a   Vapnik, Yevgeny ^f   Deyak, Michail ^g  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d N N VOROZHTSOV NOVOSIBIRSK INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^e SIBERIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^g INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Bitumen rich calcite veins; Dead Sea Basin; Fluid inclusions; Hydrocarbons; Petroleum migration; Petroleum source rock

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; BITUMEN; CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; FLUID INCLUSION; GAS FIELD; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAVY OIL; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SOURCE ROCK;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 84907314185     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.07.023     Document Type: Article

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