Global Neoproterozoic Petroleum Systems: The Emerging Potential in North Africa
Product code: SP326
Print publication date: 16/11/2009
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Resources and Economic Geology, Reduced while stocks last
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862392878
Author/Edited by: Edited by J Craig, J W Thurow, B Thusu, A G Whitham & Y Abutarruma
Weight: 0.91kg
Number of pages: 320
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/326/1
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Product Code:SP326
Special Publication 326
Edited by J Craig, J W Thurow, B Thusu, A G Whitham & Y Abutarruma
Worldwide, Neoproterozoic successions are major hydrocarbon producers. In North Africa, large basins with significant surface outcrops and thick sedimentary fills are widespread. These basins are now emerging as potential sources of hydrocarbons and are attracting interest both from geological researchers and the oil and gas industry.
This volume focuses on recent developments in the understanding and correlation of North African basin fills and explores novel approaches to prospecting for source and reservoir rocks. The papers cover aspects of petroleum prospectivity and age-equivalent global petroleum systems, Neoproterozoic tectonics and palaeogeography, sequence stratigraphy, glacial events and global climatic models, faunal and floral evolution and the deposition of early source rocks.
The broader aim is to compare with, and learn from, well-studied Neoproterozoic successions globally, including major environmental change, the emergence of life, the global carbon cycle and implications for hydrocarbon exploration.
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Preface
Global Neoproterozoic petroleum systems: the emerging potential in North Africa, J Craig, J Thurow, B Thusu, A Whitham & Y Abutarruma
Neoproterozoic timescales and stratigraphy, A G Smith
Macroevolutionary turnover through the Ediacaran transition: ecological and biogeochemical implications, N J Butterfield
Late Proterozoic plate tectonics and palaeogeography: a tale of two supercontinents, Rodinia and Pannotia, C R Scotese
187Re–187Os geochronology of Precambrian organic-rich sedimentary rocks, B Kendall, R A Creaser & D Selby
Global Infracambrian petroleum systems: a review, K A R Ghori, J Craig, B Thusu, S Lüning & M Geiger
Neoproterozoic–Early Cambrian (Infracambrian) hydrocarbon prospectivity of North Africa: a synthesis, F Lottaroli, J Craig & B Thusu
Infracambrian hydrocarbon source rock potential and petroleum prospectivity of NW Africa, S Lüning, S Kolonic, M Geiger, B Thusu, J S Bell & J Craig
Infracambrian sediments in Libyan sedimentary basins, H Benshati, A Khoja & M Sola
Field-based investigations of an ‘Infracambrian’ clastic succession in SE Libya and itsbearing on the evolution of the Al Kufrah Basin, D P Le Heron, J P Howard, A M Alhassi, L Anderson, A Morton & C M Fanning
Distribution of Infracambrian rocks and the hydrocarbon potential within the Murzuq and Al Kufrah basins, NW Africa, A Aziz & S Ghnia
Infracambrian petroleum play elements of the NE Taoudenni Basin (Algeria), A Rahmani, A Goucem, S Boukhallat & N Saadallah
Upper Vendian-lowest Ordovician sequences of the western Gondwana margin, NE Spain, J A Gámez Vintaned, U Schmitz & E Liñán
Potential for oil and gas in the Proterozoic carbonates (Sirban Limestone) of Jammu, northern India, G M Bhat, G Ram & S Koul
Late Cryogenian (Neoproterozoic) glacial and post-glacial successions at the southern margin of the Congo Craton, northern Namibia: facies, palaeogeography and hydrocarbon perspective, T Bechstädt, H Jäger, G Spence & G Werner
The ‘Infracambrian System’in the southwestern margin of Gondwana, southern South America, J C Hlebszevitsch, I Gebhard, C E Cruz & V Consoli
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