Petroleum geochemistry improves exploration efficiency by accounting for many of the variables that control the volumes of crude oil and natural gas available for entrapment, including source-rock distribution, richness and quality, thermal maturity, and the timing of generation-migration-accumulation relative to trap formation. It is most powerful when used with other disciplines, such as seismic sequence stratigraphy and reservoir characterization. Four key technology milestones form the basis for most modern applications of geochemistry to exploration.

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A recent paper in this journal (J.-P. Brim. The cluster-ridge pattern of mantled gneiss domes in eastern Finland: evidence for large-scale gravitational instability of the Proterozoic crust. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 47 (1980) 441-449) resurrects Eskola's [I] concept of the mantled gneiss dome in the early Proterozoic Svecokarelian fold bell of Finland. The author cites amongst others, the Kuopio, Juojarvi, Maarianvaara. Kontiolahti, Liperi, Oravisalo and Sotkuma domes (see Fig. 1) as examples of the diapiric upwelling of lower-density, granitic Archaean basement rocks, into more dense, overlying Karelian metasedimentary formations. The distribution of these basement structures is interpreted as reflecting a periodicity. which by analogy with the centrifuge experiments of Ramberg [2], is a function of the interlayer density contrast and the layer thicknesses.

Mud resistivity can be verified using the BKZ curve using the non –permeable interval with interval thickness / Bit Size > 16 and RT considerably higher than Mud resistivity.
BKZ departure curve is plotted on logarithmic transparency together with Bit Size constant vertical line (X axis AO/BS, Y axis Rapp/Rm). Bit size constant is overlaid with BS line on No-Invasion chart for appropriate device type (lateral or normal) The transparency is moved vertically along the BS line on the chart until the BKZ curve is matched with the chart (specifically the left part of the curve )  Verified RM  is defined as the Y value of the transparency grid crossed by Rapp / Rmud = 1 line (chart cross). Mud resistivity value is read from the transparency grid, RT defined as Y value on the chart grid where the BKZ measurement curve crosses the A line on the chart