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| image = exploring-for-oil-and-gas-traps.png
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| series = Treatise in Petroleum Geology
| title = Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps
| part = Critical elements of the petroleum system
| chapter = Sedimentary basin analysis
| frompg = 4-1
| topg = 4-123
| author = John M. Armentrout
| link = http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/beaumont/ch04/ch04.htm
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| store = http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=545
| isbn = 0-89181-602-X
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In the northern Gulf of Mexico, the understanding of minibasins—achieved through the integration of stratigraphic, structural, biostratigraphic, and geochemical data—is the critical scale of basin analysis for [[petroleum system]] identification and prospect evaluation. [[Petroleum system]] analysis is the identification of the origin of the entrapped oil and the reconstruction of the generation-migration-entrapment history. This information provides a template for further exploration for subtle traps along the [[migration]] avenue.
Minibasins are a critical scale for Gulf of Mexico [[petroleum systems]] evaluation. Basins of other tectonic styles differ, requiring a somewhat different approach to petroleum systems analysis. For example, stratigraphic entrapment along foreland basin limbs adjacent to foredeep hydrocarbon charge areas is an important aspect of foreland basins:<ref name=ch04r60>MacQueen, R., W., Leckie, D., A., eds., 1992, Foreland Basins and Fold Belts: AAPG Memoir 55, 460 p.</ref> .<ref name=ch04r104>Van Wagoner, J., C., Bertram, G., T., eds., 1995, [[Sequence stratigraphy]] of Foreland Basin Deposits: AAPG Memoir 64, 487 p.</ref>
==See also==
* [[Minibasins and petroleum systems]]
* [[East breaks petroleum system elements]]
* [[East breaks petroleum system processes]]
==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Critical elements of the petroleum system]]
[[Category:Sedimentary basin analysis]]