摘要
1 Deepwater Settings of Marginal Seas一the Frontier of Oil and Gas Exploration From the perspective of geographical environment,the areas of global oil and gas exploration can be divided into land,shallow water and deep water areas.The timespan of oil and gas discovery in each field is different.Oil and gas have been discovered on land since ancient tinies,but the application of modern technology to discover oil and gas began in 1859 in Pennsylvania,USA(Hua,1984).Largescale oil and gas exploration began in the 1920s,and the reserve discovery reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s.
基金
funded by the National Science and Technology Major Project(grant nos.2016ZX05026,20HZX05025,2008ZX05025)
the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation(grant no.20202BABL211019)
the major research projects of NSFC(grant no.2009CB219400).In particular,we would like to thank associate E1C Zhang Gongcheng for his attention to the scientific research achievements of our team.We thank the team members for their sincere and united work as always.Thanks to all the leaders,colleagues and graduate students who have supported and cared about the team's research work for many years.Many thanks for the constructive opinions and suggestions from the peer reviewers.Thanks to the hard work of the chief editor and all the editors of Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)including Susan Turner(Brisbane)who assisted with English language。