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The necessary physiographic location of deltaic sources deposited during the past 200 million years requires that continental movements be taken into account.
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TARLING, D. Continental Drift and Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas. Nature 243, 277–279 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243277a0
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