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Basin Analysis and Modeling of the Burial, Thermal and Maturation Histories of Sedimentary Basins.

MONZER MAKHOUS AND YU I. GALUSHKIN. Pp. 394. 2005. Editions Technip, Paris. 2005. Softcover. ISBN 2-7108-0846-3. Price US$73.

Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia Canada

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Quantitative analysis of the evolution of sedimentary basins is not only a worthy academic pursuit, but of economic interest as industry pursues progressively more challenging and less known sedimentary basins in the search for fossil fuels. It is recognized that the sedimentation of kerogen, the maturation of kerogen with generation of hydrocarbons, and subsequent migration and formation of petroleum traps are closely linked to basin evolution, although seldom in an easily decipherable way. During the previous 25 years, as earth scientists and engineers have been able to more adequately probe the evolution of sedimentary basins, there has been a parallel development of more sophisticated numerical models that capture the physics and chemistry of basin evolution.

In their volume, Makhous and Galushkin provide a snapshot in time of our growing understanding of basin evolution. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of . . . [Full Text of this Article]