Preface
Alain-Yves Huc and Nahum Schneidermann
Chapter 1: Paleogeography of Corg-Rich Rocks and the Preservation Versus Production Controversy
Judith Totman Parrish
Chapter 2: Paleoceanography of Marine Organic-Carbon-Rich Sediments
William W. Hay
Chapter 3: Factors Controlling the Development of Lacustrine Petroleum Source Rocks- An Update
Barry Jay Katz
Chapter 4: Organic Geochemistry of Paleodepositional Environments with a Predominance of Terrigenous Higher-Plant Organic Matter
Gary H. Isaksen
Chapter 5: Effect of Late Devonian Paleoclimate on Source Rock Quality and Location
Allen R. Ormiston and Robert J. Oglesby
Chapter 6: The Effects of Paleolatitude and Paleogeography on Carbonate Sedimentation in the Late Paleozoic
D. A. Walker, J. Golonka, A. Reid, and S. Reid
Chapter 7: Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) General Lithostratigraphy and Source Rock Quality for the Western Tethys Sea Inferred from Paleoclimate Results Using a General Circulation Model
George T. Moore, Eric J. Barron, and Darryl N. Hayashida
Chapter 8: Paleoclimatic Controls on Neocomian-Barremian (Early Cretaceous) Lithostratigraphy in Northern Gondwana's Rift Lakes Interpreted from a General Circulation Model Simulation
George T. Moore, Eric T. Barron, Karen L. Bice, Darryl N. Hayashida
Chapter 9: Depositional Controls on Mesozoic Source Rocks in the Tethys
François Baudin
Chapter 10: Cenomanian-Turonian Source Rocks: Paleobiogeographic and Paleoenvironmental Aspects
Wolfgang Kuhnt and Jost Wiedmann
Chapter 11: The Hydrocarbon Source Potential in the Brazilian Marginal Basins: A Geochemical and Paleoenvironmental Assessment
M. R. Mello, N. Telnaes, and J. R. Maxwell
Chapter 12: Source Rock Occurrence in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: The Example of the Lias of the Paris Basin
G. Bessereau, F. Guillocheau, and A.-Y. Huc
Chapter 13: The Organic Carbon Distribution in Mesozoic Marine Sediments and the Influence of Orbital Climatic Cycles (England and the Western North Atlantic)
F. S. P. van Buchem, P. L. Boer, I. N. McCave, J.-P. Herbin