Characteristics of anomalously pressured cretaceous shales in the laramide basins of wyoming

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 67, 1997, Pages 243-253

  Jiao, Z S ^a   Surdam, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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