Year
1987
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Department of Geology
Recommended Citation
Kim, Hong-yul, A comparative study of the hydrocarbon generation potential of Korean and Australian tertiary/cretaceous sedimentary basins, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of Geology, University of Wollongong, 1987. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/1391
Abstract
The southern and southeastern Korean Continental Shelf basins and the Gippsland Basin in southeastern Australia both contain thick Tertiary sedimentary sequences. The Gippsland Basin has more than 3.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil whereas commercial reservoirs remain to be discovered in the Korean basins. The tectonic settings, depositional environments, burial and thermal histories of both the Korean basins and Gippsland Basin, are in many ways, broadly similar. Each area has a non-marine, coal-bearing sequence overlain by a thick marine sequence. In both areas the best source rocks are associated with the thick non-marine sequences.
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.