Burial and thermal history of the Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado, and petroleum potential of the middle Pennsylvanian paradox formation

US Geological Survey Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 2000 O, 1996, Pages

  Nuccio, Vito F ^a   Condon, Steven M ^a  

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