Maturation of organic matter as revealed by microscopic methods: Applications and limitations of vitrinite reflectance, and continuous spectral and pulsed laser fluorescence spectroscopy

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 47, Issue C, 1992, Pages 435-510

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