Principles and their application in petroleum play assessment
Basin Analysis Philip A. Allen is a textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the geosciences. It provides in-depth insight into the thermo-mechanical principles and dynamics of sedimentary basins, essential for application in petroleum plays.
Content focus
This reference work emphasizes geodynamic processes and sediment routing in the lithosphere and mantle. The text covers the formation and evolution of sedimentary basins, integrated analysis of basin fill, burial, and thermal history, and concludes with the application of basin analysis principles in assessing conventional and unconventional petroleum plays. Extensive appendices provide mathematical support and practical exercises.
Product details
- Author: Philip A. Allen (Imperial College London)
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication date: 2013-08-09
- Number of pages: 640
- ISBN: 9780470673775
- Topic: Geology, geomorphology and lithosphere
- BISAC: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology
About the author
Philip Allen has a background in geology with a PhD from Cambridge University. He has held professorships at, among others, Trinity College Dublin, ETH Zurich, and Imperial College London. His scientific work focuses on the interaction between the solid Earth and its exosphere, with quantitative analysis at the core.