List of illustrations
List of Abbreviations and Units
Preface to The First (French) Edition
Foreword to The English Edition
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I : The Thermal Diagenesis of Organic Matter and The Methods of Paleogeothermal Analysis
Chapter 1 : The Thermal Diagenesis of Organic Matter
Chapter 2 : Methods and Means of Paleothermal Analysis
Chapter 3 : The Shallow Transmission of Deep Thermal Flows
Part II : The Study of Organic Matter in Reflected Light and Fluorescence
Chapter 4 : The Optical Analysis of Sedimentary Organic Matter in Reflected Light and Fluorescence
Chapter 5 : Attempts at Classification of Organic Matter
Chapter 6 : The Main Groups of Organic Matter
Chapter 7 : The Rank Evaluation of Dispersed Organic Matter
Chapter 8 : The Alterations of Coal
Chapter 9 : Organic Matter Transformation : Hydrocarbon Generation
Part III : A Paleogeothermal Survey of a Sequence of Sedimentary Basins Through The Study of Organic Metamorphism in Boreholes
Chapter 10 : The Rhine Valley, Continental Tertiary Trough
Chapter 11 : The Congo Basin, Lower Cretaceous Trough, Forerunner of The South Atlantic Oceanic Opening
Chapter 12 : The Red Sea, Active Oceanic RIFT
Chapter 13 : The Japanese Archipelago, Island Arc or Oceanic Convergent Zone
Chapter 14 : Upper Bavaria, Foreland of the Alpine Collision
Chapter 15 : The Rhenish Paleozoic Massifs, The Ardenne and The Rhenish Schistose Massif : Complex Orogens
Chapter 16 : The Mesozoic Aulacogen or Bramsche Massif
Chapter 17 : The Laco Region, Thermal Cretaceous Dome in Front of The Pyrenean Range
Part IV : Mineral Diagenesis : Comparison with Organic Diagenesis
Chapter 18 : Rock Metamorphism : The Role of Temperature and The 'Basement Effect' Concept
Chapter 19 : Mineral Diagenesis or 'Premetamorphism'. Evolution of Clay Minerals
Chapter 20 : Case Histories of Basin Diagenetic Surveys Using Clay Minerals in Comparison with Organic Evolution
General Outlines
Chapter 21 : Main Results
Conclusion
References
Chapter Abstracts
General Index
Geographical Index
Index of Authors
Glossary of Specialized Terms
