Crustal architecture, sedimentation, and petroleum systems in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Northeastern Brazil

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 73, Issue , 2000, Pages 273-300

  Mohriak, W U ^a   Mello, M R ^a   Bassetto, M ^a   Vieira, I S ^a   Koutsoukos, E A M ^a  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

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