Burial and thermal history of the paradox basin, utah and colorado, and petroleum potential of the middle pennsylvanian paradox formation, report, 1996. Research article heat flow in the campos sedimentary basin. Thermal histories of sedimentary basins are critical sources of scientific and practical information. The thermal evolution of sedimentary basins and its effect on the maturation of hydrocarbons.
A sedimentary basin can be made just by erecting high land in an adjacent area by volcanism. Analyzing the thermal history of sedimentary basins. Thermal history sedimentary basin vitrinite reflectance organic geochemistry thermal maturity these keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Thermal history of sedimentary basins, maturation indices, and. When variations in vitrinite reflectance with depth for a well are combined with burialhistory data, it is possible to estimate how the heat flux at that location varied with time and thus understand how vitrinite reflectance behaves as a function of depth through time. The role of thermal conductivity measurements in modelling thermal. Thus, reconstruction of temperature history is essential when evaluating petroleum prospects. Thermal history of sedimentary basins springerlink. Temperature is the most sensitive parameter in hydrocarbon generation. On the processes that produce hydrocarbon and mineral. The role of fluid flow in the thermal history of sedimentary basins.
The variation in the thermal history of the basin is illustrated using maturity maps constructed using production index pi and vitrinite reflectance ro values on two stratigraphic and potential sourcerock intervals, the ismay desert creek interval and the cane creek cycle of the paradox formation. 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. An inversion technique to reconstruct the heat flow history of a sedimentary basin from downhole geochemical or thermal indicator data is presented. Pdf thermal history of sedimentary basins researchgate. Pdf when variations in vitrinite reflectance with depth for a well are combined with burialhistory data, it is possible to estimate how the heat. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Thermal history of sedimentary basins, maturation indices, and kinetics of oil and gas generation. Methods and case histories held as part of the american association of petroleum geologists annual convention in new orleans in march 1985. Burial and thermal history of the paradox basin, utah and. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. Tectonics is needed to make sedimentary basins, but the record of the basin itself is sedimentary. Research article heat flow in the campos sedimentary basin and thermal history of the continental margin of southeast brazil robertaa.
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