Revista Brasileira de Goocigncias
PANORAMA,
19(2):256-259, junto do 1989
A MICROPALEONTOLOGIA NA INDUSTRIA DO PETROLEO
DIMAS DIAS-BRITO"
ABSTRACT _ MICROPALBONTOLOGY
IN. OIL, INDUSTRY. This article presents_a
comprehensive overview of the nature snd use of Micropigontlogy in oil indury, snd‘ itcaged for
Undoreradunte students of Geology and ‘other courses in telaied. scientific teas (een Bicloen,
Qceanography, et). The fossil groups most frequently employed in hydrocarbon explatiion of he
Brazilian seghtcotcy basing are presented and dacuased, on te Dass Of inveslgations saied at
PETROBRAS ais escarch Confer (CENPES). Applied studies of palysomorpha,ostracdcs,clereoxs
‘amofosily and foraminifera, ag Well az exampl
‘tratigraphical or palesecologicl interpretations
{realsoh cluded in tho main scope of ths paper
REsumo
es of major contiutions provided by such studies to
ofthe gotogicl history of Brazilian sedimentary basins,
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tual aerea da natura uso a micropaleontologia ma inti do petdle, sees detente
fe escrito para ettudanes de geologia c de eas potencislmente formadores de recurso:
tuagio neste campo geoienico(.< iologta,oesmografn. Centato as sivdadss que
PETROBIXS denmvcveno ca Corr de Posyas CEAPES poner uronic meetin eh
seplament ulizados na exploracdo potofers das bacas edimentares Dae sko ctadonoscuioen,
A ples dos exuosptinofscoyde onan, mates cls de formats Centos
‘xplicitando-s algumas das contbigds que cada tha destasespeidades ver presandoiterpreings