A thermal maturation study of the Carnarvon Basin, Australia and the northern North Sea, Europe

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 597-604

  Samuelsson, Jörgen ^a   Middleton, Mike ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Basin modelling; Carnarvon Basin; Heat flow; Maturity; North Sea; North West Shelf; Suppression; Vitrinite reflectance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009410554     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: 18347533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG998597     Document Type: Article

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