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2023 GeoGulf,
Houston, Texas, April 23-25, 2023

Search and Discovery Article #91205 (2023)
Posted June 16, 2023

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      Katherine Garcia, Peter P. Flaig, Lorena Moscardelli, Christopher N. Denison, Thomas D. Demchuk, Thierry Adatte, and Sebastien Castelltort

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An Emerging Play in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Shelf,
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