Petrolipalynology

• Main Authors: Jiang, Dexin (Author), Robbins, Eleanora I. (Author), Wang, Yongdong (Author), Yang, Huiqiu (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Geology,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Fossil fuels.; Economic geology.; Paleontology.; Earth Sciences.; Economic Geology.; Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture).

This book addresses the principles and methods for determining petroleum source rocks based on fossil spores and pollen. Studying petroliferous basins in China, we discovered that there are often as many as three different sources of the microfossils: the source rocks, the rocks along the pathway, a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Geological Background
• Fossil Spores and Pollen in Crude Oils
• Petroleum Sporo-pollen Assemblages and Judgment of Petroleum Source Rocks
• Spore/Pollen Fossil Coloration and Petroleum Source Rock Quality
• Palynological Evidence for Organic Petroleum Origin Theory
• Environment for Formation of Petroleum Source Rocks
• Mechanisms of Petroleum Migration
• Geochronic and Geographic distribution of Nonmarine Petroleum Source Rocks.                        .