Selected References on Geology, Source Rock and Hydrocarbon Characterization,
Scotian Basin, Slope and Adjacent Areas, Eastern Canada

Adams, P.J, 1986
A depositional and diagenetic model for a carbonate ramp: Iroquois Formation, (Early Jurassic), Scotian Shelf, Canada.
M.Sc. Thesis, Dalhousie University, 150p.

Albertz, M., Beaumont, C., Shimeld, J.W., Ings, S.J., and Gradmann, S., 2010
An investigation of salt tectonic structural styles in the Scotian Basin, offshore Atlantic Canada:
Part 1, Comparison of observations with geometrically simple numerical models.
Tectonics, vol.29, TC4017, 29p., doi:10.1029/2009TC002539

Albertz, M., and Beaumont, C., 2010
An investigation of salt tectonic structural styles in the Scotian Basin, offshore Atlantic Canada:
Part 2, Comparison of observations with geometrically complex numerical models.
Tectonics, vol.29, CT4017, 16p., doi:10.1029/2009TC002540.

Atlantic Geoscience Centre, 1991
East Coast Basin Atlas Series: Scotian Shelf.
Atlantic Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, 152p.

Balkwill, H.R. and Legall, F.D., 1989
Whale Basin, Offshore Newfoundland: Extension and Salt Diapirism.
In: A. J. Tankard and J. R. Balkwill (Eds.), Extensional Tectonics and Stratigraphy of the North Atlantic Margins.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 46, p.233-246.

Barss, J.S., Bujak, J.P., Wade, J.A., and Williams, G.L., 1980
Age, stratigraphy, organic matter type and color, and hydrocarbon occurrences in forty-seven wells offshore eastern Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.714, 6p.

Bell, J.S., and Campbell, G.R., 1990
Chapter 12- Petroleum Resources.
In: Geology of the continental margin of eastern Canada, M. J. Keen and G.L. Williams (Eds.).
Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada no.2, p.190-238 (also Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, vol.I-1).

Bell, J.S., and Howie, R.D., 1990
Chapter 4 – Paleozoic Geology.
In: Geology of the continental margin of eastern Canada, M. J. Keen and G.L. Williams (Eds.).
Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada no.2, p.141-165 (also Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, vol.I-1).

Bibby, C and Lake, P., 2000
Conventional Core Analysis Database for the Scotian Shelf and Slope, Eastern Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 3940, CD-ROM.

Bibby, C and Shimeld, J., 2000
Compilation of Reservoir Data for Sandstones of the Devonian-Permian Maritimes Basin, Eastern Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 3895, CD-ROM.

Brown, D.E., Dehler, S.A., Louden, K. and Yue, W., 2007
The Early Jurassic Heracles Sequence, Scotian Basin, Canada: Recognition of latest stage synrift tectonism and correspondence to structures offshore Morocco
Abstract, 1st Moroccan Association of Petroleum Geologists International Convention, Conference & Exhibition, Marrakech, October 28-31, 2007, Abstract Book, p.17-18.

Bujak, J.P., Barss, M.S., and Williams, G.L., 1977
Offshore eastern Canada - Part I and II: Organic type, color and hydrocarbon potential.
Oil and Gas Journal, vol.75, no.15, p.96-100 & p.198-202.

Campbell, D.C., and Mosher, D.C., 2010
Middle to Late Slope Failure and the generation of a Regional Unconformity Beneath the Western Scotian Slope, Eastern Canada.
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Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, 2000
Technical Summaries of Scotian Shelf Significant and Commercial Discoveries, 257p.

Canadian Gas Potential Committee, 2005
Natural Gas Potential in Canada in 2005 – Frontier Basins of Canada (Volume 3).
Canadian Gas Potential Committee, Calgary, 120p.

Canadian Gas Potential Committee, 2001
Natural Gas Potential in Canada - 2001.
Canadian Gas Potential Committee, Calgary, 527p.

Canadian Gas Potential Committee, 1997
Natural Gas Potential in Canada - 1997.
Canadian Gas Potential Committee, Calgary, 113p.

Carswell, A.B., Koning, T., and Hibbs, D.C., 1990
Structural and stratigraphic evolution of the East Georges Bank Basin, offshore Nova Scotia, Canada.
Text, references and figures of paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, San Francisco, California, 32p.

Cassou, A.M., Connan, J., and Borthault, B., 1977
Relationships between maturation of organic matter and geothermal effect, as exemplified in Canadian East Coast Offshore wells.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.25, no.1, p.174-194.

Corbett, N., Uswak, G. and Skrypnek, T., 2007
Integrated Reservoir Characterization, Deep Panuke Gas Pool, Offshore Nova Scotia
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Cummings, D.C., and Arnott, R.W.C., 2005
Growth-faulted shelf-margin deltas: a new (but old) play type, offshore Nova Scotia.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.53, no.3 (Sept. 2005), p.211-236.

Cummings, D.C., Hart, B.S., and Arnott, R.W.C., 2006
Sedimentology and stratigraphy of a thick, areally extensive fluvial-marine transition, Missisauga Formation, offshore Nova Scotia and its correlation with shelf margin and slope strata.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.54, no.2 (June 2006), p.152-174.

Dehler, S.A., and Roest, W.R., 1998
Gravity Anomaly Map, Atlantic Canada Region, Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3658, 1:3,000,000 scale.

Durcanin, M.A., 2009.
Influence of Synrift Salt on Rift-Basin Development: Application to the Orpheus Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada.
M.Sc. Thesis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 142p.

Durling, P., Harvey, P.J., and Howells, K., 1995
Geophysical evidence for thrust faulting in the Carboniferous Antigonish-Mabou Subbasin, Nova Scotia.
Atlantic Geology, vol.31, p.183-196.

Durling, P; Harvey, P J., 1996
Results of seismic mapping in the St. Georges Bay area: implications for stratigraphy, structure, salt tectonism and petroleum potential.
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3319.

Durling, P., Harvey, P.J., and Howells, K., 1999
Seismic Reflections of the Antigonish - Mabou Subbasin, Northern Nova Scotia.
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File Report, 33p.

Durling, P., Harvey, P.J., and Howells, K., 1995
The near-surface geology of St. Georges Bay, Nova Scotia: implications for the Hollow Fault. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol.32, p.603-613.

Drummond, K. J., 1990
Geology of Venture, a Geopressured Gas Field, Offshore Nova Scotia. In: Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade 1978-1988.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 54, Chapter 5, p.55-71.

Ebinger C.A., & E. Tucholke, B.E., 1988
Marine Geology of the Sohm Basin, Canadian Atlantic Margin.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol.72, No.12, p.1450-1468.

Edson, G.M., Olson, D.L., and Petty, A.J., 2000
Georges Bank Petroleum Exploration.
U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, Office of Resource Evaluation, OCS Report MMS 2000-031, 20p.

Eliuk, L.S., 1978
The Abenaki Formation, Nova Scotia Shelf, Canada - A depositional and diagenetic model for a Mesozoic carbonate platform.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.26, no.4, p.424-514.

Eliuk, L.S. 2004
History of the practical application of a failed? dolomite model (mixing zone) to the
“Demascota Dolomite Beds” of the Abenaki Formation, Nova Scotia offshore Late Jurassic paleocontinental shelf carbonate margin – Case Study for Core Conference
CSPG Dolomite Conference January 13-15, 2004, 15p. (on CD-ROM).

Eliuk, L.S., and Levesque, R., 1989
Earliest Cretaceous sponge reef mounds, Nova Scotia Shelf (Shell Demascota G-32).
In: Reefs: Canada and Adjacent Area, H.H.J. Geldsetzer, N.P. James and G.E. Tebbutt (Eds.)
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 13, p.713-720.

Eliuk, L.S. and Prather, B.E. 2005
Baltimore Canyon Trough Mesozoic Carbonate Margin Cores, Offshore USA Atlantic.
Abstract and core conference article – CSPG-AAPG Convention Core Conference, Calgary, Alberta 31p. (on CD-ROM).

Ellis, P.M., Crevello, P.D., and Eliuk, L.S., 1985
Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous deep-water buildups, Abenaki Formation, Nova Scotian Shelf.
In: Deep-water Carbonates, P.D. Crevello and P.M. Harris (Eds.)
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 25, p.249-261

EnCana Corporation, 2006
Deep Panuke Offshore Gas Development – Development Plan
Deep Panuke Development Plan Application - Volume 2, 293p.

Falcon-Laing, H.J., Fensome, R.A., Gibling, M.R., Malcolm, J, Fletcher, K.R. and Holleman, M., 2007
Karst-related outliers of the Cretaceous Chaswood Formation of Maritime Canada
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol.44, no.75, p.619-642.

Fensome, R.A. and Williams, G.L., 2004
Scotian Margin PalyAtlas: version 1. (CD-ROM)
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 4677.

Fensome, R.A, Crux, J.A., Gard, I.G., MacRae, R.A., Williams, G.L., Thomas, F.C., Fiorini, F., and Wach, G.D., 2008
The last 100 million years on the Scotian Margin, offshore eastern Canada: an event-stratigraphic scheme emphasizing biostratigraphic data.
Atlantic Geology, vol.44, p.93-126.

Funck, T., Jackson, H.R., Louden, K., Dehler, S.A. and Wu, Y., 2004
Crustal structure of the northern Nova Scotia rifted continental margin (Eastern Canada).
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.109, no.B9, B09102.

Geological Survey of Canada, 2004
Magnetic Anomaly Map – Atlantic Canada Region.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1813, 1:3,000,000 scale

Geological Survey of Canada, 2004
Magnetic Anomaly Map – Scotian Shelf and Surrounds.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1814, 1:500,000 scale

Geological Survey of Canada, 2004
Magnetic Anomaly Map – Gulf of St. Lawrence and Surrounds.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1815, 1:500,000 scale

Gibling, M.R., Calder, J.H., Ryan, R., van der Poll, H.W. and Yeo, G.M., 1992
Late Carboniferous and Early Permian drainage patterns in Atlantic Canada.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol.29, no.2, p.338-352.

Given, M.M., 1977
Mesozoic and early Cenozoic geology of Offshore Nova Scotia.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.25, no.1, p.63-91.

Gradstein, F.M., Jansa, L.F., Srivastava, S.P., Williamson, M.A., Bonham-Carter, G., and Stam, B., 1990
Chapter 8 - Aspects of North American paleo-oceanography.
In: Geology of the continental margin of eastern Canada, M.J. Keen and G.L. Williams (Eds.). Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada no.2, p.190-238 (also Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, vol.I-1).

Grant, A.C., and McAlpine, K.D., 1990
Chapter 6 – The continental margin around Newfoundland.
In: Geology of the continental margin of eastern Canada, M.J. Keen and G.L. Williams (Eds.). Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada no.2, p.239-292 (also Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, vol.I-1).

Greenough, J.D., 1995
Chapter 6 – Mesozoic Rocks.
In: Geology of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen in Canada and Greenland. H. Williams (Ed.). Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada no.6, p.567-600 (also Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, vol.F-1).

Grist, A.M., Ryan, R.J., and Zentilli, M., 1995
The thermal evolution and timing of hydrocarbon generation in the Maritimes Basin of eastern Canada: evidence from apatite fission track data.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.43, no.2, p.145-155.

Gould, K., 2007
Chlorite diagenesis in reservoir sandstones of the lower Missisauga Formation, offshore Nova Scotia.
M.Sc. thesis, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 177p.

Hacquebard, P.A. 1974
A composite coalification curve of the Maritime region and its value for petroleum exploration. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 74-1, Part B, p.21-23.

Hansen, D.M., Shimeld, J.W., Williamson, M.A., and Lykke-Andersen, H., 2004
Development of a major polygonal fault system in Upper Cretaceous chalk and Cenozoic mud-rocks of the Sable Subbasin, Canadian Atlantic Margin
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol.21, no.9, p.1205-1219.

Harvey, P.J., 1993
Porosity identification using amplitude variations with offset in Jurassic carbonate, offshore Nova Scotia.
The Leading Edge, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, March 1993, vol.12, no.3, p.180-184.

Harvey, P.J., and MacDonald, D.J., 1990
Seismic Modelling of Porosity within the Jurassic Aged Carbonate Bank, Offshore Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Exploration Geophysicists, vol.26, nos.1&2, p.54-71.

Holser, W.T., Clement, G.P., Jansa, L.F., and Wade, J.A., 1988
Evaporite Deposits of the North Atlantic rift.
In: W. Manspeizer (Ed.), Triassic-Jurassic Rifting: Continental Breakup and the Origin of the Atlantic Ocean and Passive Margins (Part B), Elsevier, Amsterdam, p.525-556.

Ings, S.J., and Shimeld, J.W., 2006
A new conceptual model for the structural evolution of a regional salt detachment on the northeast Scotian margin, offshore eastern Canada.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, vol.90, no.9, p.1407-1423.

Ings, S.J., MacRae, R.A., Shimeld, J. and Pe-Piper, G., 2005
Diagenesis and Porosity Reduction in the Late Cretaceous Wyandot Formation, Offshore Nova Scotia: A Comparison with Norwegian North Sea Chalks.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.53, no.3, p.237-249

Ings, S.J., Shimeld, J., Pe-Piper, G., and MacRae, A., 2005.
Diagenesis and porosity reduction in the Late Cretaceous Wyandot Formation, Offshore Nova Scotia: a comparison with Norwegian North Sea chalks.
Bulletin of Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, vol.53, no.3 ,p.237-249

Jansa, L.F., 1993
Early Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms of the Northeastern North American Margin.
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Jansa, L.F., 1986
Paleogeography and evolution of the North Atlantic ocean basin during the Jurassic.
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Jansa, L.F., 1981
Mesozoic carbonate platforms and banks off the eastern North American margin.
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Jansa, L.F., and Nogeura Urrea, V.H.N., 1990
Geology and Diagenetic History of Overpressured Sandstone Reservoirs, Venture Gas Field, Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Jansa, L.F., and Wade, J.A., 1975
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Jansa, L.F., and Wade, J.A., 1975
Paleogeography and sedimentation in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, southeastern Canada.
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Jansa, L.F., and Wiedmann, J., 1982
Mesozoic-Cenozoic Development of the Eastern North American and Northwest African Continental Margins - A Comparison.
In: Geology of the Northwest African Continental Margin, U. von Rad, K. Hinz, M. Sarthein and E. Seibold (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, p.215-269.

Jansa, L.F., Bujak, J.P, and Williams, G.L., 1980
Upper Triassic salt deposits of the western North Atlantic.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol.17, no.5, p.547-559.

Jansa, L.F. Pe-Piper, G., Robertson, P.B. and Freidenreich, O., 1989
Montagnais: A submarine impact structure on the Scotian shelf, eastern Canada.
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Keen, C.E., and Potter, D.P., 1995a
Formation and evolution of the Nova Scotia Rifted margin: Evidence from deep seismic reflection data.
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Keen, C.E., and Potter, D.P., 1995b
The transition from a volcanic to nonvolcanic rifted margin off eastern Canada.
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Keen, C.E., MacLean, B.C. & Kay, W.A., 1991
A deep seismic reflection profile across the Nova Scotia continental margin, offshore eastern Canada.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol.28, no.7, p.1112-1120.

Keen, C.E., Kay, W.A., Keppie, D., Marillier F., Pe-Piper, G., & Waldron, J.W.F., 1991
Deep Seismic Reflection Data from the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine: Tectonic Implications for the Northern Appalachians.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol.28, no.7, p.1096-1111.

Keighley, D., and Brown, D.E., 2005
Facies Heterogeneity in Lacustrine Basins: The Transtensional Moncton Basin (Mississippian) and Extensonal Fundy Basin (Triassic - Jurassic), New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Field Trip Guidebook FT-A5, Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 98p.

Kidston, A.G., Brown, D.E., Smith B.M. and Altheim, B., 2005
The Upper Jurassic Abenaki Formation Offshore Nova Scotia: A Seismic and Geologic Perspective.
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Halifax, 165p. CD-ROM and

Kidston, A.G., Brown, D.E., Smith B.M. and Altheim, B., 2002
Hydrocarbon Potential of the Deep-Water Scotian Slope.
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Halifax, 111p. CD-ROM and

Kidston, A.G., Smith, B., Brown, D.E., Makrides, C. and Altheim, B., 2007
Nova Scotia Deep Water Offshore Post-Drill Analysis – 1982-2004.
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 181p.

Klemme, H.D., 1994
Petroleum Systems of the World Involving Upper Jurassic Source Rocks.
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Leleu, S., and Hartley, A.J., 2010.
Controls on the stratigraphic development of the Triassic Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia: implications for the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Triassic Atlantic rift basins.
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Li, G., Ravenhurst, C.E., and Zentilli, M., 1995
Implications of apatite fission track analysis for the thermal history of the Scotian Basin, offshore Nova Scotia, Canada.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.43, no.2, p.127-144.

Louden, K., 2002
Tectonic Evolution of the East Coast of Canada.
Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists “Recorder”, vol.27, no.2, p.37-48.

Lucas, S.G., and Tanner, L.H., 2007.
The nonmarine Triassic-Jurassic boundary of the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America.
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Lyngberg, E., 1984
The Orpheus graben, offshore Nova Scotia: Palynology, organic chemistry, maturation and time-temperature history.
M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 159p.

MacDonald, J.D., 1988
Offshore Nova Scotia: Oil discoveries and possible trends.
(Presented to the 1988 Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Technical Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.)

Mango, F.D. 1990
Pre-steady state kinetics at the onset of petroleum generation.
Organic Geochemistry, vol.16, nos.1-3, p.41-48.

MacLean, B.C., and Wade, J.A., 1993
Seismic Markers and Stratigraphic Picks in the Scotian Basin Wells.
East Coast Basin Atlas Series, Geological Survey of Canada, 276p.

MacLean, B.C., and Wade, J.A., 1992
Petroleum geology of the continental margin south of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, Offshore Eastern Canada.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.40, no.3, p.222-253.

MacRae, R.A., Shimeld, J.W, and Wielens, J.B.W., 2002
Sequence stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of Upper Cretaceous limestone units, offshore Nova Scotia.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File 4023 (1 sheet poster montage).

Mohriak, W.U., 2005
Salt Tectonics in Atlantic-Type Sedimentary Basins: Brazilian and West African Perspectives Applied to the North Atlantic Margin.
25th Annual GCS-SEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, Houston, pp.375-413, CD-ROM.

Mudford, B.S., and Best, M.E., 1989
The Venture gas field, offshore Nova Scotia: case study of overpressuring in a region of low sedimentation rate.
Bulletin of American Association of Petroleum Geologists vol.73, no.9, p.1383-1396.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K., 2006
Evaluation of the Petroleum Systems by 1D and 2D Numerical Modeling and Geochemical Analysis in the Area of Most Recent Exploration Wells on the Deepwater Scotian Slope, Offshore Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia Department of Energy, Contract No.60127404, 485p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K., 2006
Executive Summary - Evaluation of the Petroleum Systems by 1D and 2D Numerical Modeling and Geochemical Analysis in the Area of Most Recent Exploration Wells on the Deepwater Scotian Slope, Offshore Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia Department of Energy, Contract No.60127404, 32p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. 1995
Organic petrography and kinetics of Jurassic/Cretaceous shales and geochemistry of selected liquid hydrocarbons, Scotian Basin.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.3284, 101p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. 1994
Isotope analysis and kinetics of selected kerogens and source rocks from wells adjacent to Sable Island, Nova Scotia.
SSC Contract No. 23420-3-C257/01-OSC.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. 1994
Organic petrography and kinetics of limestone and shale source rocks in wells adjacent to Sable Island, Nova Scotia and the interpretation on oil-oil or oil-source rock correlation and basin modeling.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.3167, 100p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K., 1993
A review of the organic matter type, maturity and hydrocarbon source potential of deep ocean basin sediments from central North Atlantic.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.3156, 40p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. 1993
Analyses and interpretation of geochemical and source rock data from Scotian Shelf wells. Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.2804, 232p.

Mukhopadhyay, P K,. 1991
Evaluation of Organic Facies of the Verrill Canyon Formation Sable Subbasin, Scotian Shelf.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2435, 37p.

Mukhopadhyay, P K, 1990
Characterization and maturation of selected Cretaceous and Jurassic source rocks and crude oil, Scotian Shelf
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.2621, 99p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. 1990
Characterization and maturation of selected oil and condensate samples and correlation with source beds, Scotian Shelf.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.2620, 94p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. 1989
Cretaceous organic facies and oil occurrence, Scotian Shelf.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.2282, 47p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. and Birk, D., 1989
Organic facies in the Sable Subbasin, Scotian Shelf.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No.2027, 50p.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. and Wade, J.A. 1990
Organic facies and maturation of sediments from the three Scotian Shelf Wells.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.38, no.4, p.407-424.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K., Wade, J.A. and Kruge M.A. 1995
Organic facies and maturation of Jurassic/Cretaceous rocks, possible oil-source rock correlation based on pyrolysis of asphaltenes, Scotian Basin, Canada.
Organic Geochemistry, vol.22, no.1, p.85-104.

Mukhopadhyay, P.K., Wade, J.A. and Williamson, M.A. 1994
Measured vs. Predicted vitrinite reflectance from Scotian wells: Implications for predicting hydrocarbon generation and migration.
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Nantais, P.T., 1983
A reappraisal of the regional hydrocarbon potential of the Scotian Shelf.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report No. 1175, 76p.

Oakey, G.N. (compiler), 1998
Morphology Map, Atlantic Canada Region, Canada.
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Oakey, G.N., and Dehler, S.A., 1998
Magnetic Anomaly Map, Atlantic Canada Region, Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3659, 1:3,000,000 scale.

Oakey, G.N. and Dehler, S.A., 2004
Atlantic Canada Magnetic Map Series: Atlantic Canada.
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1813, 1:3 000 000.

OETR Association, 2011.
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Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Fowell, S.J., Schlische, R.W., Withjack, M.O., and LeTourneau, P.M., 2000
Implications of a comparison of the stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Argana (Morocco) and Fundy (Nova Scotia, Canada) Permian-Jurassic basins.
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PanCanadian Energy Corporation (EnCana), 2002
Deep Panuke Offshore Gas Development
Deep Panuke Development Plan Application - Volume 2, 145p.

Pascucci, P., Gibling, M.R. and Williamson, M.A., 2000
Late Paleozoic to Cenozoic history of the offshore Sydney Basin, Atlantic Canada.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol.37, no.8, p.1165-1165.

Pe-Piper, G., and MacKay, R.M., 2006
The Provenance of Lower Cretaceous sandstones onshore and offshore Nova Scotia from electron microprobe geochronology and chemical variations of detrital monazite.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.54, no.4 (December), p.366-379.

Pe-Piper, G., and Piper, D.J.W, 2004
The effects of strike-slip motion along the Cobequid-Chedabucto-southwest Grand Banks fault system on the Cretaceous-Tertiary evolution of Atlantic Canada.
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