Sentence examples for petroleum accumulation from inspiring English sources

Structural traps produced by the folding and faulting of rocks in the basin during the formation of the Rocky Mountains helped promote petroleum accumulation.

Petroleum accumulation in the basin is largely attributable to structural traps produced by the folding and faulting of rock that occurred during the formation of the Rocky Mountains.

The United States Geological Survey described the Orinoco Belt last month in a report as the largest petroleum accumulation it had assessed, containing an estimated 513 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

Many of the island chains bordering eastern Asia have geologic formations favouring petroleum accumulation, and oil fields both on land and offshore are in production in the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo and in China, Brunei, and Malaysia.

The intrusive could also pose severe effects on petroleum accumulation.

The Tabei Uplift is one of the largest petroleum accumulation region in China.

Most petroleum accumulations have been found in clastic reservoirs (sandstones and siltstones).

This geochemical technique, along with seismic profiling, is often used to search for offshore petroleum accumulations.

These methods can only indicate the presence or absence of underground formations that are favourable for petroleum accumulations.

In 1975 the U.S. Geodynamics Committee initiated a research program to explore the continental crust using seismic techniques developed by private industry for the purpose of locating petroleum accumulations in sedimentary rocks.

Thicknesses of sedimentary rock needed for sizable petroleum accumulations may occur in continental-margin areas of the Ross, Amundsen, Bellingshausen, and Weddell seas and perhaps near the Amery Ice Shelf; and some may also exist in inland basins covered by continental ice, particularly in West Antarctica.