Critical review of the uncertainty of Tmax in revealing the thermal maturity of organic matter in sedimentary rocks

S Yang, B Horsfield - International Journal of Coal Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
For more than forty years, the Rock-Eval pyrolysis technique has been widely used to rapidly
assess the petroleum generating characteristics of organic matter in petroleum source rocks …

Bias in sediment chemical weathering intensity evaluation: a numerical simulation study

H Fu, X Jian, H Pan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Silicate weathering is critical to global carbon cycle and climate change, and has attracted
considerable attention in Earth science studies. Chemical weathering intensity evaluation …

Examining the relationship between Tmax and vitrinite reflectance: An empirical comparison between thermal maturity indicators

JC Evenick - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
For over 40 years Rock-eval pyrolysis data have been used to assess thermal maturity and
source rock potential. There have been many published equations representing the …

High-precision U-Pb zircon ages for explosive volcanism calibrating the NW European continental Autunian stratotype

P Pellenard, G Gand, M Schmitz, J Galtier, J Broutin… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Volcanism was intense in western European basins during the Late Carboniferous–Early
Permian transition, related to the late Variscan extension and associated magmatism. In the …

Climatic and palaeoceanographic changes during the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) inferred from clay mineralogy and stable isotope (CO) geochemistry (NW Europe …

C Bougeault, P Pellenard, JF Deconinck… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Jurassic was broadly a greenhouse climate period that was punctuated
by short warm and cold climatic events, positive and negative excursions of carbon isotopes …

Effect of paramagnetic mineral content and distribution on nuclear magnetic resonance surface relaxivity in organic-rich Niobrara and Haynesville shales

K Livo, M Saidian, M Prasad - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Surface relaxivity is required to convert nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation times
to pore size distributions (PSD). In current practice, a constant value of surface relaxivity is …

RSCM thermometry in the Alpi Apuane (NW Tuscany, Italy): New constraints for the metamorphic and tectonic history of the inner northern Apennines

G Molli, AV Brovarone, O Beyssac, I Cinquini - Journal of Structural …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, Raman spectroscopy on carbonaceous material (RSCM) is applied, for the first
time, in the Northern Apennines with particular focus on the Alpi Apuane (NW Tuscany, Italy) …

Climatic and sea‐level control of Jurassic (Pliensbachian) clay mineral sedimentation in the Cardigan Bay Basin, Llanbedr (Mochras Farm) borehole, Wales

JF Deconinck, SP Hesselbo, P Pellenard - Sedimentology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Early Jurassic climate is characterized by alternating cold and warm periods highlighted by
studies based notably on oxygen isotopes measured on belemnite guards and other marine …

A global palaeoclimatic reconstruction for the Valanginian based on clay mineralogical and geochemical data

G Charbonnier, S Duchamp-Alphonse… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
High-resolution clay mineral and δ 18 O carb analyses have been performed on three
sections of Valanginian age (Early Cretaceous), from northwestern (~ 20–30° N) and …

Characteristics comparison and occurrence mode of different types of soluble organic matter in lacustrine shale in the Dongying Sag, eastern China

J He, J Cai, T Lei, M Song, H Liu, X Wang - International Journal of Coal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soluble organic matter (SOM) in shale can be divided into free and adsorbed states.
However, the characteristics and occurrence mode of different types of SOM remain unclear …