Foz do Amazonas area: The last frontier for elephant hydrocarbon accumulations in the South Atlantic realm

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 74, Issue , 2001, Pages 403-414

  Mello, M R ^a   Mosmann, R ^b   Silva, S R P ^a   Maciel, R R ^a   Miranda, F P ^a  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b NONE

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