A new paradigm for gas exploration in anomalously pressured "tight gas sands" in the rocky mountain laramide basins

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 67, 1997, Pages 283-298

  Surdam, Ronald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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