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Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins

Methods and Case Histories

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Nancy D. Naeser

    1. Denver Federal Center, United States Geological Survey, Denver, USA

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  2. Thane H. McCulloh

    1. Mobil Exploration and Producing Services, Inc., Dallas, USA

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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.

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: Introduction and Overview

    • Thane H. McCulloh, Nancy D. Naeser
    Pages 1-11

  3. Thermal Conductivity of Sedimentary Rocks: Measurement and Significance

    • David D. Blackwell, John L. Steele
    Pages 13-36

  4. Reaction of Organic Material to Progressive Geological Heating

    • Stephen Creaney
    Pages 37-52

  5. Molecular Thermal Maturity Indicators in Oil and Gas Source Rocks

    • Joseph A. Curiale, Stephen R. Larter, Robert E. Sweeney, Bruce W. Bromley
    Pages 53-72

  6. Temperature and Time in the Thermal Maturation of Sedimentary Organic Matter

    • Charles E. Barker
    Pages 73-98

  7. Chemical Geothermometers and Their Application to Formation Waters from Sedimentary Basins

    • Yousif K. Kharaka, Robert H. Mariner
    Pages 99-117

  8. Paleotemperatures from Fluid Inclusions: Advances in Theory and Technique

    • Robert C. Burruss
    Pages 119-131

  9. The Thermal Transformation of Smectite to Illite

    • A. M. Pytte, R. C. Reynolds
    Pages 133-140

  10. 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology of Sedimentary Basins Using Detrital Feldspars: Examples from the San Joaquin Valley, California, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, and North Sea

    • T. Mark Harrison, Kevin Burke
    Pages 141-155

  11. The Application of Fission-Track Dating to the Depositional and Thermal History of Rocks in Sedimentary Basins

    • Nancy D. Naeser, Charles W. Naeser, Thane H. McCulloh
    Pages 157-180

  12. Apatite Fission-Track Analysis as a Paleotemperature Indicator for Hydrocarbon Exploration

    • Paul F. Green, Ian R. Duddy, Andrew J. W. Gleadow, John F. Lovering
    Pages 181-195

  13. Significance of Combined Vitrinite Reflectance and Fission-Track Studies in Evaluating Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: An Example from Southern Israel

    • Shimon Feinstein, Barry P. Kohn, Moshe Eyal
    Pages 197-216

  14. Estimating the Thickness of Sediment Removed at an Unconformity Using Vitrinite Reflectance Data

    • Charlene Armagnac, James Bucci, G. St. C. Kendall, Ian Lerche
    Pages 217-238

  15. A Finite Element Model of the Subsidence and Thermal Evolution of Extensional Basins: Application to the Labrador Continental Margin

    • Dale R. Issler, Christopher Beaumont
    Pages 239-267

  16. A Simulator for the Computation of Paleotemperatures During Basin Evolution

    • A. E. McDonald, D. U. von Rosenberg, W. R. Jines, W. H. Burke Jr., L. M. Uhler Jr.
    Pages 269-275

  17. Thermal Evolution of Laramide-Style Basins: Constraints from the Northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana

    • E. Sven Hagen, Ronald C. Surdam
    Pages 277-295

  18. Thermal and Hydrocarbon Maturation Modeling of the Pismo and Santa Maria Basins, Coastal California

    • Henry P. Heasler, Ronald C. Surdam
    Pages 297-309

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 311-319
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Denver Federal Center, United States Geological Survey, Denver, USA

    Nancy D. Naeser

  • Mobil Exploration and Producing Services, Inc., Dallas, USA

    Thane H. McCulloh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins

  • Book Subtitle: Methods and Case Histories

  • Editors: Nancy D. Naeser, Thane H. McCulloh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3492-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8124-5Published: 21 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3492-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 319

  • Topics: Mineralogy, Geology, Sedimentology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Mineral Resources

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