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Akhmedov, 1968; Barbat, 1961; Boldizhar, 1975; Vadas, 1964; Varentsov, 1948;
Ver Wiebe, 1959; Vysotsky and Feingersh, 1969; Gavrilov, 1975; Geodekian,
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Kertai, 1959; Kolesik, 1966; Krishnan, 1964; Krotova,1975; Russell, 1958;
Rachinsky, 1982, 1987, 1989; Kalinin, 1977; Rocco and Jaboli, 1961; Reference
book “Oil and Gas Fields…”, 1976; Boldizar,1968; Tainsh, 1950):
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Europe: the Padan, Adriatic, Viennese, Pannonian,
Transylvanian, Carpathian, Indolo-Kuban, Urals-Volga,
Middle and South Caspian Basins.
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Asia: the Mesopotamian, Zagros, Central Iranian, West
Siberian, Fergana, Afghan-Tajik, Punjab, Assam, Bengal,
Irrawaddy-Andaman, Sumatra, Java, Sakhalin, Niigata,
Taiwan Basins.
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Africa: the Rif, Tell, Atlas, Guinea Bay Basins.
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Americas: Cook Bay, West Canada, California, Rocky
Mountains, Appalachian, Gulf of Mexico (Gulf Coast),
Maracaibo, Orinoco, Reconcavo Basins.
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Australia and Oceania: the Internal East Australian, Bowen-
Surratt and Papua Basins (Table 7.1).
Mandatory genetic association of regional oil and gas accumulation
zones and individual fields with geo-fluid-dynamic systems' discharge
areas is supported by insignificant hydrocarbon accumulation amounts
in a number of basins. These basins have sufficient oil and gas generation
potential (presence, content, extent and type of the organic matter trans-
formation, geologic history of the region, temperature regime, etc.). They
also have concentration potential (reservoirs, traps, seals, etc.). However,
they are closed hydrogeologically and are practically devoid (except on a
small scale) of the throughgoing to the surface vertical-lateral paleo- and
present-day deep ground water flow.
These basins include the Anglo-Paris Basin, Baltic and Moscow
Syneclizes, Dobrudja Trough, internal zone of the North Caspian
Depression, Syr-Darya Depression, etc. The role and significance of the lat-
ter factor in the formation of commercial oil and gas occurrences is espe-
cially clear in the North Caspian Depression where most of the discovered
fields are associated with its faulted peripheral flank zones (the Astrakhan
and Volgograd fields, the Saratov Volga area, Orenburg region, Buzachi
Arch, Emba,
Karaton-Prorva, Zharkomys-Enbek areas).
Classic examples confirming the objective nature of the described correla-
tion are found in oil and gas basins of the Alpine mobile belts - in the intermon-
tane depressions of California, Maracaibo, Orinoco, Irrawaddy-Andaman,
