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Geology and Exploitation (Southwest Petroleum University), the
Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
(51490653) and 973 Program (2013CB228004). We are grateful to
the Grants from the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned
Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry and the Key
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