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Global Overpressure Scenario

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Sediment Compaction and Applications in Petroleum Geoscience

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Dickinson made a serious attempt to understand the geoscience of pore pressure from his studies in the Gulf of Louisiana. Compaction disequilibrium has been considered classically as the mechanism of overpressure. Subsequently, thermal effects, clay and organic matter transformations and osmosis are the other mechanisms put forward by the authors for overpressure. This chapter reviews worldwide overpressure scenarios—from different continents, countries, (hydro-carbon bearing) rocks of different ages, structures, depths and tectonic and sedimentary regimes.

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    Troyee Dasgupta

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

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Dasgupta, T., Mukherjee, S. (2020). Global Overpressure Scenario. In: Sediment Compaction and Applications in Petroleum Geoscience. Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13442-6_5

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