Seismic response characteristics of a regional-scale pressure compartment boundary, Alberta Basin, Canada

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 67, 1997, Pages 269-281

  Maucione, Debi T ^a,b   Surdam, Ronald C ^a,b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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