Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins; ; Methods and Case Histories

Naeser, Nancy D. & Thane Hubert McCulloh (Eds)

ISBN 10: 0387967028 / ISBN 13: 9780387967028

Published by Springer Verlag, New York & Berlin, 1989

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Tables and figures; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 319 pages; 1989 Springer Verlag. Oversize HC in glossy pictorial paper covered boards. First edition. Snugly bound and generally clean and neat. Prior owner name penned to front flyleaf. Moderate sunning and color shift to the spine edge. Contents clean and neat with no marks observed. Illustrated with figures and tables. VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins; ; Methods and Case Histories
• Publisher: Springer Verlag, New York & Berlin
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387967028
• ISBN 13: 9780387967028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sciences, Geology

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Synopsis

The collection of papers in this volume is a direct result of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Research Symposium on "Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: Methods and Case Histories" held as part of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention in New Orleans in March 1985. The original goal of the sym­ posium was to provide a forum where specialists from a variety of dis­ ciplines could present their views of methods that can be used to study the thermal history of a sedimentary basin or an important portion of a basin. An explicit part of that goal was to illustrate each method by presentation of a case history application. The original goal is addressed by the chapters in this volume, each of which emphasizes a somewhat different approach and gives field data in one way or another to illustrate the practical useful­ ness ofthe method. The significance of our relative ignorance of the thermal conductivities of sedimentary rocks, especially shales, in efforts to understand or model sedimentary basin thermal histories and maturation levels is a major thrust of the chapter by Blackwell and Steele. Creaney focuses on variations in kerogen composition in source rocks of different depositional environments and the degree to which these chem- . ically distinct kerogens respond differently to progressive burial heating.