【Main Contents】

1. Preface
(1) Introduction
(2) Research Advances
(3) Research Clue and Contents
2. Regional Geological Settings
(1) Origin of the South China Sea
(2) Origin of the Pearl River Mouth Basin
(3) Faults and Anticlines in Zhu III Subbasin
(4) Magmatism and Heat Flow
(5) Stratigraphy and Paleontology
3. Reservoir Rocks
(1) Lithology
(2) Sequence Stratigraphy
(3) Depositional Environments
(4) Provenance for Reservoir Rocks
4. Migration Pathway System
(1) Outline
(2) Oil and Gas Fields
(3) Source Rocks
(4) Correlation of Il-Rock and Oil-Oil
(5) Faults as Conduit
(6) Carrier Beds and Unconformities as Conduits
5. Responses of Rock to Fluid flow
(1) Outline
(2) Diagenesis
(3) Alteration of Sandstone
(4) Response of Reflectance
(5) Discussion on Iron Source
6. Conclusions
7. Acknowledgements
8. References Cited