ABSTRACT: This study investigated the origin of water, natural gas and oil, as well as diamonds. In this paper, it has been shown that diamonds, water, oil and natural gas on Earth were formed as a ...

Klotz, J., Khazaradze, G., Angermann, D., Reigber, C., Perdomo, R. and Cifuentes, O. (2001) Earthquake Cycle Dominates Contemporary Crustal Deformation in Central and Southern Andes. Earth and ...

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