Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: Methods and Case Histories

1 Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: Introduction and Overview.- 2 Thermal Conductivity of Sedimentary Rocks: Measurement and Significance.- 3 Reaction of Organic Material to Progressive Geological Heating.- 4 Molecular Thermal Maturity Indicators in Oil and Gas Source Rocks.- 5 Temperature and Time in the Thermal Maturation of Sedimentary Organic Matter.- 6 Chemical Geothermometers and Their Application to Formation Waters from Sedimentary Basins.- 7 Paleotemperatures from Fluid Inclusions: Advances in Theory and Technique.- 8 The Thermal Transformation of Smectite to Illite.- 9 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology of Sedimentary Basins Using Detrital Feldspars: Examples from the San Joaquin Valley, California, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, and North Sea.- 10 The Application of Fission-Track Dating to the Depositional and Thermal History of Rocks in Sedimentary Basins.- 11 Apatite Fission-Track Analysis as a Paleotemperature Indicator for Hydrocarbon Exploration.- 12 Significance of Combined Vitrinite Reflectance and Fission-Track Studies in Evaluating Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: An Example from Southern Israel.- 13 Estimating the Thickness of Sediment Removed at an Unconformity Using Vitrinite Reflectance Data.- 14 A Finite Element Model of the Subsidence and Thermal Evolution of Extensional Basins: Application to the Labrador Continental Margin.- 15 A Simulator for the Computation of Paleotemperatures During Basin Evolution.- 16 Thermal Evolution of Laramide-Style Basins: Constraints from the Northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana.- 17 Thermal and Hydrocarbon Maturation Modeling of the Pismo and Santa Maria Basins, Coastal California.