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Thermobaric Depth Settings of Sedimentary Rock Basins and Their Fluid Dynamics: Communication 1. Zonation of the Stratispheric Structure and Constraints of Anomalous High and Superhigh Fluid Pressures

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The paper addresses zonation of the stratisphere: thermobaric conditions in its deep zones with anomalous high (AHP) and superhigh (SHP) fluid pressures, as well as main types of fluid-dynamic setting in the upper zone. Mechanisms of the clay dehydration and processes of oil-and-gas formation governing the development of superhigh fluid pressures in the lower zone of rock formation are also discussed.

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Kholodov, V.N. Thermobaric Depth Settings of Sedimentary Rock Basins and Their Fluid Dynamics: Communication 1. Zonation of the Stratispheric Structure and Constraints of Anomalous High and Superhigh Fluid Pressures. Lithol Miner Resour 53, 489–506 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490218060044

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