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Sedimentary basins are compartments of the upper crust in which solid and fluid materials have accumulated over millions of years. Both, solids and fluids undergo partial transformation at temperatures ranging from 0° to 300 °C and pressures up to approximately 100 MPa. Due to their longevity and high contents of chemically metastable components, sedimentary basins can be regarded as longterm reactors, in which different fluids are transported, formed, mixed, modified, and - in the case of petroleum - consumed.
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Gaupp, R. et al. (2008). Fluid Systems. In: Littke, R., Bayer, U., Gajewski, D., Nelskamp, S. (eds) Dynamics of Complex Intracontinental Basins. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85085-4_6
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