Predicting porosity distribution within oolitic tidal bars

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 69, 1997, Pages 211-229

  Cavallo, Larry J ^a,b   Smosna, Richard ^a,b  

^a Stonewall Gas Company   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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