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Origins of Natural Gas and Petroleum

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Crude oils seem to be products of sequential processes which began with the isolation of natural gases by frontal analyses of ground water solutions of the gaseous constituents of sedimentary rocks.

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    W. G. MEINSCHEIN, YARON M. STERNBERG & RONALD W. KLUSMAN

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MEINSCHEIN, W., STERNBERG, Y. & KLUSMAN, R. Origins of Natural Gas and Petroleum. Nature 220, 1185–1189 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201185a0

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