Rare gas studies of basin scale fluid movement
- 15 July 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions A
- Vol. 344 (1670) , 141-156
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1993.0082
Abstract
Rare gases are conservative tracers of subsurface fluid movement. The mass balance of atmosphere-derived and crustally produced radiogenic and nucleogenic rare gases in natural gas reservoirs allows straightforward constraints to be placed on scales of fluid movement in sedimentary basins. The details of large-scale fluid movements in Neogene sedimentary basins appear to differ according to their thermal structures.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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