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A diagram that shows the depth of burial corrected for compaction of each rock unit (subsidence curve) versus the timing of the essential elements in a petroleum system, including the time interval and critical moment for petroleum generation. The calculated temperature history and the timing of petroleum generation based on calculated vitrinite reflectance or other maturity parameters are commonly overlain on the burial history diagram.<ref name=Petersetal_2012>Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, 2012, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/hedberg4/INTRODUCTION/INTRODUCTION.HTM An overview of basin and petroleum system modeling: Definitions and concepts], ''in'' Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, eds., Basin modeling: New horizons in research and applications: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1106 AAPG Hedberg Series no. 4], p. 1-16.</ref>
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An example of how to construct a burial history chart:
  
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* [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1999/ofr-99-0050/OF99-50A/fig6a.html USGS - Red Sea]
 
* [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1999/ofr-99-0050/OF99-50A/fig6a.html USGS - Red Sea]
 
* [http://www.gsa.state.al.us/documents/pubs/onlinepubs/Circulars/C_187.PDF Alabama Survey - Black Warrior Basin] (page 6)
 
* [http://www.gsa.state.al.us/documents/pubs/onlinepubs/Circulars/C_187.PDF Alabama Survey - Black Warrior Basin] (page 6)
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A diagram that shows the depth of burial corrected for compaction of each rock unit (subsidence curve) versus the timing of the essential elements in a petroleum system, including the time interval and critical moment for petroleum generation. The calculated temperature history and the timing of petroleum generation based on calculated vitrinite reflectance or other maturity parameters are commonly overlain on the burial history diagram.[1]

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References

  1. Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, 2012, An overview of basin and petroleum system modeling: Definitions and concepts, in Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, eds., Basin modeling: New horizons in research and applications: AAPG Hedberg Series no. 4, p. 1-16.