Can Big River Theory Explain the Permian's Prolific Production?

摘要

The history of the Permian Basin reads like a detective novel in reverse. Geoscientists know how the story turns out. They're trying to determine exactly how it started. Robert Stern thinks he and a group of fellow scientists have solved one important part of the mystery. Stern, a professor of geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, can draw on a solid scientific basis for that detective work. He has 3,259 clues.