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Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 1987; v. 26; p. 1-14;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1987.026.01.01
© 1987 Geological Society of London

Introduction

A. J. Fleet

Exploration and Production Division, BP Research Centre, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 7LN, UK

J. Brooks

Exploration Division, Britoil plc, 150 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5LJ, UK
Consultant, Langside Drive, Newlands, Glasgow, G43 2EE, UK

Organic-rich marine sediments are the source of most of the world’s oil. The need for an understanding of actual and potential marine source rocks is therefore of vital economic importance, but also poses many fascinating ‘academic’ questions. This introduction attempts to outline and link the papers on actual and potential marine petroleum source rocks which make up this volume. These papers were originally presented at a Geological Society meeting in London in May 1983. The volume is divided into three main parts. The first deals with concepts and methods of study, the second with depositional processes and environments, and the last with the stratigraphic record. Four topics merit discussion in many of the papers: the roles of primary productivity and stratification, or restricted circulation, in controlling organic matter preservation; the relationship between sedimentation rate and the organic content of potential source rocks; the palaeo-oceanographic characteristics of past oceans in contrast to those of the Plio-Pleistocene ones; and the need for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of organic-rich and associated sediments.





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