Petroleum and Global Tectonics

✍ Scribed by Alfred G. Fischer (editor)

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 5171
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The recent prominence of global tectonics has been as spectacular as it has been promissory of ramifications throughout established geological thought. The academic concepts of tectonics --continental drift, sea-floor spread, the definition of the major tectonic plates of the world, to cite only a few--are now regarded as essentially valid. Suggesting, as they do, a re-examination of many geological tenets, one may ask what bearing tectonics have on the formation and accumulation of petroleum. This volume addresses that question and presents the implications of the theoretical advances on the essential quest for petroleum and its by-products.

Originally published in 1975.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Prologue
Welcome to Conference Participants
Overview of Plate Tectonics
Heat Flow and Vertical Movements of the Crust
Origin and Growth of Basins
Rift Valley Basins and Sedimentary History of Trailing Continental Margins
Petroleum and Plate Tectonics of the Southern Red Sea
Marine Sediments, Geosynclines and Orogeny
Geochemical Formation of Oil
Geothermal Gradients, Heat Flow and Hydrocarbon Recovery
Distribution and Geological Characteristics of Giant Oil Fields
Epilogue