Passive continental margins of West Africa and unusual features of the oil and gas potential of their deep-water part

Oceanology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 291-297

  Zabanbark, A ^a  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; HYDROCARBON RESERVE; PALEOGENE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SOURCE ROCK; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036265559     PISSN: 00014370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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