Chapter 36: Petroleum prospectivity of the Triassic-Jurassic succession of Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 35, Issue , 2011, Pages 545-558

  Embry, Ashton ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITUMINOUS COAL; GAS FIELD; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC; OIL FIELD; PALEOGENE; SANDSTONE; SHALE; SOURCE ROCK; TRIASSIC;

CANADA; NUNAVUT; SVERDRUP BASIN;

EID: 80051951345     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M35.36     Document Type: Article

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