Rifts and passive margins : structural architecture, thermal regimes, and petroleum systems

This is a comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art information on vitally important hydrocarbon habitats for advanced geology students and researchers, exploration geoscientists, and petroleum managers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Nemčok, Michal (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects
Rifts (Geology)
Continental margins.
Landforms.
Geomorphology.
Geodynamics.
Grabens (Geology)
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781316476185
1316476189
9781523101887
1523101881
9781316474860
1316474860
9781107025837
1107025834
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 607 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Basic description of structural styles in rift and passive margin settings, including extension directions and key structural elements
  • Mechanics of rifting and transition to drift phases
  • Determination of unstretched continental, thinned continental, proto-oceanic, and oceanic crustal boundaries
  • Determination of timing of rift and continental breakup events
  • The role of lithospheric composition and compositional variations in evolving rift margin architectural development and in breakup locations
  • The role of preexisting anisotropy in structural styles in rifts and passive margins
  • The role of syn-extensional deposition and erosion in evolving structural styles of rifts and passive margins and the effects of tectonic on deposition and erosional patterns
  • Fluid flow systems associated with oceanic hot spots, oceanic transforms, continental transforms, and rifts
  • The role of pre-rift heat flow in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • The role of structural and stratigraphic architecture in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • The role of syn-rift deposition and erosion in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • The role of deformation in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • The role of fluid flow in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
  • Introduction to hydrocarbons in rift and passive margin settings
  • Models of source rock distribution, maturation, and expulsion in rift and passive margin settings
  • Models of reservoir quality distribution
  • Sealing characteristics
  • Models of hydrocarbon migration
  • Trapping styles
  • Hydrocarbon perservation.

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