Thermal and chronological record of syn- to post-Laramide burial and exhumation, Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 75, Issue , 2001, Pages 159-181

  Gray, Gary G ^a   Pottorf, Robert J ^a   Yurewicz, Donald A ^a   Mahon, Keith I ^a   Pevear, David R ^a   Chuchla, Richard J ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1306/m75768c7     Document Type: Article

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