Impact of heat flux anomalies on hydrocarbon maturity around salt diapirs and salt sheets in Gulf Coast: models and observations
Conference
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· AAPG (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.) Bull.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6375293
The authors investigated the characteristics of conductive heat flow and the associated temperature distributions around both a highly conductive salt diapir and a salt sheet embedded in a lower conductivity host rock. For the salt sheet, temperatures in the subsalt formations are emphasized. Even relatively thin sheets can cause a significant change in the subsalt temperature; a sheet 1000 m thick can easily give rise to a temperature decrease of 15/degrees/C or more in the underlying formations. Diapiric effects are of similar magnitude.
- Research Organization:
- Standard Alaska Production Co., Anchorage (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6375293
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8810362-
- Journal Information:
- AAPG (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.) Bull.; (United States), Vol. 72:9; Conference: Gulf Coast Association of the Geological Society and Gulf Coast Section of SEPM meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 19 Oct 1988
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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