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2007 AAPG Eastern Section Meeting
September 16-18, Lexington, Kentucky
Search and Discovery Article #90068 (2007)
Posted August 3, 2007
*Special appreciation is expressed to Jim Drahovzal, Technical Program Chair, for providing these abstracts for posting on Search and Discovery.
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Hydrothermal Dolomite (HTD) in the Michigan Basin, USA
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Petrologic and Petrophysical Evaluation of the Lockport Dolomite (Middle Silurian) for Geological Recent Appalachian Basin Mergers and Acquisitions – 2007
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Geology of the Kyrock and Nolin River Gorge Region, Edmonson County, Kentucky
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Late Middle Devonian Tectonic Activation of the Appalachian Basin, Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania
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Petrology and Petrophysics of Middle Devonian/Middle Silurian Potential CO2 Sequestration Reservoirs in the Central Appalachian Basin
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Sequestration of CO2 in the Central Appalachian Basin
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Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration Programs in New York
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Sequence Stratigraphy of the Pottsville Formation in Southern Ohio
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