Chapter 8: US geological survey Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (CARA): Introduction and summary of organization and methods

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 35, Issue , 2011, Pages 145-150

  Charpentier, Ronald R ^a   Gautier, Donald L ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 80051921585     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M35.8     Document Type: Article

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