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The Santa Cruz - Tarija Province of Central South America: Los Monos - Machareti(!) Petroleum System

by
Sandra J. Lindquist


SELECTED REFERENCES

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Belotti, H.J., Saccavino, L.L., and Schachner, G.A., 1995, Structural styles and petroleum occurrence in the sub-Andean fold and thrust belt of northern Argentina, in Tankard, A.J., Suarez S., R., and Welsink, H.J., eds., Petroleum basins of South America: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 62, p. 545-555.

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