Kamron,
>>The 10,000 year old petroleum find, do you have a reference on that?
Most of the information comes from proprietary data derived at the oil
companies I used to work for. Try:
Waples, D.W., 1980. Time and temperature in petroleum formation: application
of Lopatin's method to petroleum exploration. AAPG Bull. 64, 916-926.
Also:
Connan, J., 1974. Time-temperature relations in oil genesis, AAPG Bull. 55.
2018-2032
These should get you started on petroleum formation.
Jim
AAPG = American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Jim –
thanks very much for the references. Should make good reading for this
thread. (Doubt I'll ever have the time or be able to find'em though, sigh.)
Cool – Mike