Architecture of marine rift-basin successions

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 110-146

  Ravnas R ^a,b   Steel, R J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Norske Conoco AS   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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