First data on the global zone of the generation and accumulation of hydrocarbons in the oceanic crust
Abstract
A model is developed according to which a global fluid stratum in the oceanic crust is viewed as a reactor generating hydrocarbons. This is determined by the fact that rocks in layer III of the oceanic crust are composed mainly of ultrabasic formations, i.e., they have a high reduction potential. These regions are associated with stress-relaxation zones and, hence, zones of mechanical-energy dissipation and intense mass transfer, which characterize regions of elevated hydrocarbon production.
- Publication:
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Akademiia Nauk SSSR Doklady
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989DoSSR.308..175C
- Keywords:
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- Earth Crust;
- Geochemistry;
- Hydrocarbons;
- Ocean Bottom;
- Basalt;
- Dunite;
- Gabbro;
- Lava;
- Geophysics