2: Paleogeography and Paleo-Earth Systems in the Modeling of Marine Paleoproductivity: A Prerequisite for the Prediction of Petroleum Source Rocks
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Published:January 01, 2018
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Jim Harris, Alexandra Ashley, Simon Otto, Rob Crossley, Ros Preston, John Watson, Mike Goodrich, the Merlin+ Project Team, Paul Valdes, 2018. "Paleogeography and Paleo-Earth Systems in the Modeling of Marine Paleoproductivity: A Prerequisite for the Prediction of Petroleum Source Rocks", Petroleum Systems Analysis—Case Studies, Mahdi A. AbuAli, Isabelle Moretti, Hege M. Nordgård Bolås
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ABSTRACT
Mapping the distribution of productivity in ancient seas is a fundamental requirement for predicting the lateral variation in source rock quality, one of the main uncertainties for exploration in frontier basins, and is also required in the modeling of the carbon cycle in deep time. To construct a predictive tool designed to address this problem, a multifaceted approach based on paleogeographic mapping integrated with Earth-systems modeling has been devised and applied for a series of 18 time slices from the Early Paleozoic to Recent. Plate Wizard™ reconstructions were used as the basis for global paleogeographic mapping. Detailed paleotectonic and...
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Petroleum Systems Analysis—Case Studies
GeoRef
- carbon
- carbon cycle
- depositional environment
- digital terrain models
- geochemical cycle
- marine environment
- organic compounds
- paleobathymetry
- paleoclimatology
- paleoenvironment
- paleogeography
- paleorelief
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- prediction
- productivity
- reconstruction
- seasonal variations
- source rocks
- spatial variations
- statistical analysis
- terrains
- time series analysis
- total organic carbon
- upwelling