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Basin analysis and modeling of the burial, thermal and maturation histories in sedimentary basins.


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Basin analysis and modeling of the burial, thermal and maturation maturation /mat·u·ra·tion/ (mach-u-ra´shun)
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 histories in sedimentary basins The term sedimentary basin is used to refer to any geographical feature exhibiting subsidence and consequent infilling by sedimentation. As the sediments are buried, they are subjected to increasing pressure and begin the process of lithification. .

Makhous, Monzer and Yu. I. Galushkin.

Editions Technip, [c]2005

380 p.

$113.00

Makhous, a professional in oil and gas exploration, and Galushkin (Museum of Earth Science, Moscow State University Moscow State University, at Moscow, Russia, officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.; founded 1755 as Moscow Univ. by the Russian scientist M. V. Lomonosov, renamed Moscow State Univ. after the Russian Revolution, and renamed after its founder in 1940. ) explain the latest contributions to basin modeling and apply them to continental basins worldwide. Focus is on the one- and two-dimensional modeling of the burial, thermal, and maturation histories of sedimentary basins, with particular attention paid to specific features of basin evolution. A new approach is applied to the fitting procedure for determining the kinetic kinetic /ki·net·ic/ (ki-net´ik) pertaining to or producing motion.

ki·net·ic
adj.
Of, relating to, or produced by motion.



kinetic

pertaining to or producing motion.
 reaction parameters of hydrocarbon generation. The book is distributed in the US by Enfield.
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