Postulated generation of bacterial methane from seepage petroleum in sea floor sediments of the Gulf of Mexico

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 66, 1996, Pages 337-340

  Thompson, K F M ^a  

^a Petrosurveys Inc   (United States)

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