Heat flow in the cretaceous of Northwestern Kansas and implications for regional hydrology

Current Research in Earth Sciences

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-11

  Förster, Andrea ^a   Merriam, Daniel F ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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