Abstract:A seismic event of October 4, 1979, east of the Ural Mountains was described by the U. S. Department of Energy as an underground nuclear explosion. The location of this event by the U. S. Geological Survey places it in the oil-rich Middle Ob region of West Siberia in the vicinity of the Salym oil field. The field, which was discovered in 1965, has seven oil pools, of which the main pay is the bituminous shale of the Upper Jurassic Bazhenov Formation. This formation is one of the few examples of a primary oil-b… Show more
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