Fluids and Basin Evolution |
Contents
CLASSIFICATION OF BASINS AND MECHANISMS OF FORMATION | 6 |
TRACING FLUID HISTORIES OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS | 12 |
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activity alteration America aquifer associated Athabasca base burial Canada carbonate cement chemical clastic clay minerals composition continental crust deposits depth diagenesis diagenetic early Earth effects environments equilibrium et al evolution example exchange facies faults Figure flow fluid fluvial formation formed fractionation Geological geometries grains Group hydrocarbon hydrogen illite important increase isotopic isotopic composition Journal kaolinite lithosphere loading Longstaffe lower mantle margin McArthur Basin mechanism meteoric water Michigan minerals modified natural noble gases occur oceanic origin oxygen isotope permeability Petroleum phase plate pore porosity processes produced Proterozoic quartz range ratios reaction relationships relative reservoirs result rift rocks salinity samples sand sandstones Science secondary sedimentary basins sediments sequence settings smectite Society stable stratigraphic studies subsidence successions suggested surface systems tract tectonic temperature Thelon thermal units values