Compositional variability of crude oils and source kerogen in the Silurian carbonate-evaporite sequences of the eastern Michigan Basin, Ontario, Canada

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 307-322

  Obermajer, Mark ^a   Fowler, Martin G ^a   Snowdon, Lloyd R ^a   Macqueen, Roger W ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 0141735517     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/48.4.307     Document Type: Article

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