Rifts and passive margins : structural architecture, thermal regimes, and petroleum systems / Michal Nemcok.
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TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.Description: ix, 607 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmISBN: - 9781107025837 (hardback : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Basic description of structural styles in rift and passive margin settings, including extension directions and key structural elements --
2. Mechanics of rifting and transition to drift phases --
3. Determination of unstretched continental, thinned continental, proto-oceanic, and oceanic crustal boundaries --
4. Determination of timing of rift and continental breakup events --
5. The role of lithospheric composition and compositional variations in evolving rift margin architectural development and in breakup locations --
6. The role of preexisting anisotropy in structural styles of rifts and passive margins --
7. The role of syn-extensional deposition and erosion in evolving structural styles of rifts and passive margins and the effects of tectonics on deposition and erosional patterns --
8. Fluid flow systems associated with oceanic hot spots, oceanic transforms, continental transforms, and rifts --
9. The role of pre-rift heat flow in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins --
10. The role of structural and stratigraphic architecture in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins --
11. The role of syn-rift deposition and erosion in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins --
12. The role of deformation in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins --
13. The role of fluid flow in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins --
14. Introduction to hydrocarbons in rift and passive margin settings --
15. Models of source rock distribution, maturation, and expulsion in rift and passive margin settings --
16. Models of reservoir quality distribution --
17. Sealing characteristics --
18. Models of hydrocarbon migration --
19. Trapping styles --
20. Hydrocarbon preservation.
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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