Aromatic hydrocarbon distribution and calculation of oil and gas volumes in post-santonian shale and coal, Anambra Basin, Nigeria

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 73, Issue , 2000, Pages 233-245

  Akaegbobi, I M ^a   Schmitt, M ^b   Nwachukwu, J I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b Geochemische Analysen ^*  (Germany)

^c OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

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