Top seal assessment in exhumed basin settings - some insights from atlantic margin and borderland basins

Norwegian Petroleum Society Special Publications

Volumn 11, Issue C, 2002, Pages 89-107

  Corcoran, D V ^a   Dore A G ^a  

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EID: 77957055414     PISSN: 09288937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8937(02)80009-1     Document Type: Article

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