Tectonic evolution of the Ixtapa graben, an example of a stake-slip basin of southeastern Mexico: Implications for regional petroleum systems

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 75, Issue , 2001, Pages 183-216

  Meneses Rocha, Javier J ^a  

^a PEMEX   (Mexico)

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