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Petroleum source rock assessment in non-marine sequences: pyrolysis and petrographic analysis of Australian coals and carbonaceous shales

T.G. Powell, +4 more
- 01 Jan 1991 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 3, pp 375-394
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A series of Australian coals and terrestrial sediments ranging in age from Permian through tertiary have been analyzed to assess their petroleum source character and the suitability of various techniques for assessment of source rock potential in non-marine sequences.
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This article is published in Organic Geochemistry.The article was published on 1991-01-01. It has received 87 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Maceral & Cutinite.

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Kerogen origin, evolution and structure

M. Vandenbroucke, +1 more
- 01 May 2007 - 
TL;DR: A review of the main advances in kerogen studies since the comprehensive synthesis edited by Durand [Durand, B. as discussed by the authors, 1980] can be found in this paper.
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An introduction to organic geochemistry

Stephen Killops, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the long-term fate of organic matter in the geosphere and its role in sedimentary organic matter preservation and degradation in the geological timescale.
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Guidelines for assessing the petroleum potential of coaly source rocks using Rock-Eval pyrolysis

Richard Sykes, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2002 - 
TL;DR: The rank threshold for oil generation is indicated by the increase in BI (S1/TOC) at Rank(Sr)∼9-10 (Tmax ∼420-430°C, Ro ∼0.65-0.85%) and the threshold for extraction of oil expulsion is indicated in this article.
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On the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type

Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe, +12 more
- 01 Oct 2013 - 
TL;DR: The coal type refers solely to coals' depositional origin and the maceral-mineral admixture resulting from that origin, whereas coal rank refers to the changes in geochemistry and resultant changes in reflectance caused by increasing thermal maturity of the coal.
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Coal as a source rock for oil: a review

Ronald W.T. Wilkins, +1 more
- 01 May 2002 - 
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that in the natural environment vitrinites begin to generate early, followed by labile liptinites such as suberinite, then cutinite, sporinite, and, finally, alginite.
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Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology

John M. Hunt
TL;DR: The development of petroleum geochemistry and geology carbon and origin of life petroleum and its products how oil forms -natural hydrocarbons how oil form -generated hydrocarbon models petroleum generation the origin of natural gas migration and accumulation abnormal pressures the source rock coals, shales, and other terrestrial source rocks petroleum in the reservoir seeps and surface prospecting a geochemical program for petroleum exploration crude oil correlation prospect evaluation as discussed by the authors.
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Significance of Coniferous Rain Forests and Related Organic Matter in Generating Commercial Quantities of Oil, Gippsland Basin, Australia

Ganapathy Shanmugam
- 01 Aug 1985 - 
TL;DR: In the Gippsland basin, coniferous rain forests dominated by kauri vegetation flourished in a raised bog setting as mentioned in this paper, which provided large quantities of hydrogen-rich exinite macerals with potential to generate oil.
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Biomarker distributions in Australian oils predominantly derived from terrigenous source material

R.P. Philp, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1986 - 
TL;DR: A study of a large number of these oils has permitted a number of biomarker distributions to be determined that appear to be characteristic for oils derived from terrigenous source material.
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Fluorescence microscopical rank studies on liptinites and vitrinites in peat and coals, and comparison with results of the rock-eval pyrolysis

M. Teichmüller, +1 more
- 01 Feb 1983 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a series of peat and coal samples ranging in rank between the stages of brown coal and high-volatile bituminous A coal were studied for the relationships between vitrinite reflectance, fluorescence properties of different liptinite macerals and of huminite/vitrinite and results of elemental analyses and of the Rock-Eval pyrolysis.
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Chemical modelling of kerogens

Françoise Behar, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1987 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the same molecular weight of about 25,000 has been chosen for the different models of kerogens at the beginning of the diagenesis stage, in order both to get a statistical representation and make comparisons easier.