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! Petrological information
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! Petrological information || Exploration significance || Exploration application
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! Exploration application
   
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| Oil-filled fluid inclusions in reservoir or carrier beds
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| Oil-filled fluid inclusions in reservoir or carrier beds || Indicates migration pathways and absolute timing of migration || Migration routes that existed during migration
| Indicates migration pathways and absolute timing of migration
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| Migration routes that existed during migration
   
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| Oil-filled fluid inclusions in seals
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| Oil-filled fluid inclusions in seals || Indicates leaky seals and timing of [[leakage]] || [[Hydrocarbon column|Column]] height may be small and/or [[Dip|updip]] (spilled) accumulations may exist
| Indicates leaky seals and timing of [[leakage]]
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| [[Hydrocarbon column|Column]] height may be small and/or [[Dip|updip]] (spilled) accumulations may exist
   
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| Primary [[porosity]] preservation
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| Primary [[porosity]] preservation || Indicates facies patterns may control hydrocarbon distribution || Map depositional facies
| Indicates facies patterns may control hydrocarbon distribution
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| Map depositional facies
   
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| Dissolution porosity present
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| Dissolution porosity present || Diagenesis may be critical for trap location; mineralogy and/or facies may control location of dissolution porosity || Use [[sequence stratigraphy]], hydrologic, or thermal maturity models.<ref name=ch21r41>Tobin, R., C., 1991a, Diagenesis, thermal maturation and burial history of the Upper Cambrian Bonneterre Dolomite, southeastern Missouri: an interpretation of thermal history from petrographic and fluid inclusion evidence: Organic Geochemistry, vol. 17, no. 2, p 142–152.</ref><ref name=ch21r42>Tobin, R., C., 1991b, Pore system evolution vs. paleotemperature in carbonate rocks: a predictable relationship?: Organic Geochemistry, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 271., 10., 1016/0146-6380(91)90087-Z</ref><ref name=ch21r38>Read, J., F., Kerans, C., Sarg, J., F., Wright, F., M., 1995, Milankovitch Sea-Level Changes, Cycles, and Reservoirs on Carbonate Platforms in Greenhouse and Ice-House Worlds: SEPM Short Course 35, 79 p.</ref><ref name=ch21r52>Wilson, M., D., ed., 1994, Reservoir quality Assessment and Prediction in Clastic Rocks: SEPM (Society of Sedimentary Geology) Short Course 30, 432 p.</ref>
| Diagenesis may be critical for trap location; mineralogy and/or facies may control location of dissolution porosity
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| Use [[sequence stratigraphy]], hydrologic, or thermal maturity models.<ref name=ch21r41>Tobin, R., C., 1991a, Diagenesis, thermal maturation and burial history of the Upper Cambrian Bonneterre Dolomite, southeastern Missouri: an interpretation of thermal history from petrographic and fluid inclusion evidence: Organic Geochemistry, vol. 17, no. 2, p 142–152.</ref><ref name=ch21r42>Tobin, R., C., 1991b, Pore system evolution vs. paleotemperature in carbonate rocks: a predictable relationship?: Organic Geochemistry, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 271., 10., 1016/0146-6380(91)90087-Z</ref><ref name=ch21r38>Read, J., F., Kerans, C., Sarg, J., F., Wright, F., M., 1995, Milankovitch Sea-Level Changes, Cycles, and Reservoirs on Carbonate Platforms in Greenhouse and Ice-House Worlds: SEPM Short Course 35, 79 p.</ref><ref name=ch21r52>Wilson, M., D., ed., 1994, Reservoir quality Assessment and Prediction in Clastic Rocks: SEPM (Society of Sedimentary Geology) Short Course 30, 432 p.</ref>
   
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| Postmigration burial cements present
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| Postmigration burial cements present || Indicates potential cementation of water leg || Map diagenetic facies
| Indicates potential cementation of water leg
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| Map diagenetic facies
   
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