Contents
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Introduction to Petroleum Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Knut Bjørlykke
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Introduction to Sedimentology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Knut Bjørlykke
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Sedimentary Geochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Knut Bjørlykke
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Sandstones and Sandstone Reservoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Knut Bjørlykke and Jens Jahren
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Carbonate Sediments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Nils-Martin Hanken, Knut Bjørlykke and Jesper Kresten Nielsen
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Mudrocks, Shales, Silica Deposits and Evaporites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Knut Bjørlykke
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Stratigraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Jenø Nagy and Knut Bjørlykke
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Seismic Stratigraphy, Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis . . . 255
Knut Bjørlykke
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Heat Transport in Sedimentary Basins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Knut Bjørlykke
10 Subsurface Water and Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins . . . . . . . . . 279
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11 Introduction to Geomechanics: Stress and Strain in Sedimentary
Basins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Knut Bjørlykke, Kaare Høeg and Nazmul Haque Mondol
12 The Structure and Hydrocarbon Traps of Sedimentary Basins . . . . . 319
Roy H. Gabrielsen
13 Compaction of Sedimentary Rocks: Shales, Sandstones
and Carbonates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Knut Bjørlykke
14 Source Rocks and Petroleum Geochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
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