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CONTENTS

Preface ................................................... VII
Acknowledgement ............................................ XV
Postscript .................................................. XVII

Part 1 . General
CHAPTER 1 . CONCEPTS OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS .................. 1

Summary .................................................. 2
Introduction ................................................ 2
Accumulation of sediment ...................................... 5
Transgressions and regressions .................................... 8
Eustatic sea-level changes ....................................... 11
Lithological associations in sedimentary basins ......................... 15
Classification of sedimentary basins ................................ 18
Sedimentary-basin geometry ................................... 19
References .................................................. 21
CHAPTER 2 . EARLY DEFORMATION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS: GROWTH
STRUCTURES ............................................ 23

Summary .................................................. 23
Introduction ................................................ 24
Definitions and terminology ..................................... 24
Growth faults ............................................... 25
The nature of growth faults .................................... 28
Growth anticlines ............................................ 34
References ................................................. 38

CHAPTER 3 . COMPACTION OF SEDIMENT AND SEDIMENTARY ROCKS.
AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ................................... 41
Summary .................................................. 41
Compaction of sediment and sedimentary rocks ........................ 41
Pore-water expulsion .......................................... 53
Interstitial water pressures ....................................... 54
Mechanical aspects of pore water in sedimentary rocks .................... 57
Fluid migration from abnormally high pore pressures ..................... 61
References ................................................. 63

CHAPTER 4 . A SYNOPSIS OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY ................. 67
Introduction ................................................ 67
Geological inference ........................................... 68
Petroleum geology ............................................ 72
Petroleum ............................................... 72
The Alkane (Paraffin) Series ................................... 73