The geological debate about whether, and to what extent, humic coals have sourced oil is
likely to continue for some time, despite some important advances in our knowledge of the …

Crustal Heat Flow: A Guide to Measurement and Modelling is a handbook for geologists and
geophysicists who manipulate thermal data, particularly for petroleum exploration. In theory …

A new thermal maturity evaluation tool, RaMM (Raman Maturity Method), enables
determination of equivalent vitrinite reflectance from Raman spectra of inertinite. Except for …

The deconvolution and resolution of overlapping bands in the Raman spectra of a suite of
coals studied by curve-fitting methods has improved our understanding of the main structural …

Abstract The Raman Maturity Method (RaMM) is a non-graphical technique for thermal
maturity determination based on the multi-linear regression analysis of parameters derived …

The Xihu Sag in the East China Sea Shelf Basin is a focus for hydrocarbon exploration and
development. Hydrocarbons in the Xihu Sag are believed to have mainly originated from …

RaMM (Raman maturity method) is a thermal maturity tool for humic macerals in coals or as
dispersed organic matter (DOM), expressed in equivalent vitrinite reflectance (EqVR). The …

1 Executive Summary The Cooper Basin is a Pennsylvanian–Middle Triassic intracratonic
basin in northeastern South Australia and southwestern Queensland. In conjunction with the …

The vast majority of petroleum exploration wells in the offshore basins of Western Australia
bottom in Jurassic sedimentary rocks for which vitrinite reflectance results commonly appear …

This chapter describes shale gas resource systems in terms of their organic geochemical
characteristics. A key component in the volume of petroleum that can be generated is the …