Anomalously pressured gas compartments in cretaceous rocks of the laramide basins of wyoming: A new class of hydrocarbon accumulation

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 67, 1997, Pages 199-222

  Surdam, R C ^a   Jiao, Z S ^a   Heasler, H P ^a  

^a Institute for Energy Research   (United Kingdom)

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