Reciprocal architecture of Bearpaw T-R sequences, uppermost Cretaceous, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 675-694

  Catuneanu, Octavian ^a   Sweet, Arthur R ^b   Miall, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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