Mass balance and fluid flow constraints on regional-scale dolomitization, Late Devonian, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 566-571

  Machel, Hans G ^a   Mountjoy, Eric W ^b   Amthor, Joachim E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Research and Technology Services   (Netherlands)

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