References

References

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An investigation of salt tectonic structural styles in the Scotian Basin, offshore Atlantic Canada: Part 1, Comparison of observations with geometrically simple numerical models.
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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, 1999
Organic carbon and rock-eval pyrolysis data for the Tantallon M-41, Shelburne G-29, Shubenacadie H-100, Alma F-67 and Evangeline H-98 wells.
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board Sample Report SR(E) 1991-1, 36p.

Avery, M.P., 1991
Vitrinite reflectance (Ro) of dispersed organics from Shell Tantallon M-41.
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Barnard, P.C., and Dodd, T.A., 1984
A petroleum geochemical evaluation of the interval 950m to 6042.7m of the Home Oil Ltd. Louisbourg J-47 well, drilled offshore on the Scotian Shelf, Canada.
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Bowman, S.J., Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D.J.W., Fensome, R.A. and King, E.L., 2012
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Campbell, D.C. and Deptuck, M.E., 2012
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Campbell, D.C., 2011
The Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic geological history of the outer continental margin off Nova Scotia, Canada: Insights into margin evolution from a mature passive margin.
PhD Dissertation, Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

CNSOPB, 2013
Geological context and parcel prospectivity for Call for Bids NS13-1: Seismic interpretation, source rocks and maturation, exploration history and potential play types of the central and eastern Scotian Shelf.
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board Call for Bids NS13-1, 66p.
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Initial rifting and breakup between Nova Scotia and Morocco: insight from new magnetic models.
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Initial rifting and break-up between Nova Scotia and Morocco: an examination of new geophysical data and models.
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Deptuck, M.E., 2011
Proximal to distal postrift structural provinces on the western Scotian Margin, offshore Eastern Canada: Geological context and parcel prospectivity for Call-for-Bids NS11-1.
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Deptuck, M.E., 2010
The ‘slope detachment zone’ on the western Scotian Slope, offshore Nova Scotia: structural style, timing and implications for margin evolution.
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Deptuck, M.E. and Campbell, D.C., 2012
Widespread erosion and mass failure from the ~51 Ma Montagnais marine bolide impact off southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Deptuck, M. E., Sylvester, Z., and O’Byrne, C. 2012
Pleistocene seascape evolution above a ‘simple’ stepped slope, western Niger Delta,
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Deptuck, M.E., Steffens, G.S., Barton, M., Pirmez, C., 2003
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Ebinger C.A. and Tucholke, B.E., 1988
Marine Geology of the Sohm Basin, Canadian Atlantic Margin.
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Fletcher, R.C., Hudec, M.R., and Watson, I.A., 1995
Salt glacier and composite sediment-salt glacier models for the emplacement and early burial of allochthonous salt sheets.
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Fowler, M.G. and Obermajer, M., 2001
Gasoline range and saturate fraction gas chromatographs of crude oils from the Scotia Shelf.
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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).
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GeoChem Laboratories, 2001
Geochemical Analyses of Selected Samples for 11 wells. (Glooscap C-63, Glenelg J-48, Chebucto K-20, Tantallon M-41, S. Griffin J-13, Dauntless D-35, Mohican I-100, Iroquois J-17, Argo F-38, Alma K-85, Glenelg E-58.
Prepared for ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board Sample Report SR 2000-14, 193p.

GeoMark Research, Inc., 2001
Geochemical characterization and correlations of piston core oil seeps from offshore Nova Scotia: Final Interpretation Report.
Prepared for TDI-Brooks International, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board Geochemical Study NS33-T62-02P, 76p.

Goodway, B., Szelewski, C., Overell, S., Corbett, N. and Skrypnek, T, 2008
Calibrated AVO and LMR analysis using a new DHI flat-spot AVO class 6 fluid contact to mitigate reservoir risk at Stonehouse, offshore Nova Scotia.
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Haworth, R.T., and Lefort, J.P., 1979
Geophysical evidence for the extent of the Avalon zone in Atlantic Canada.
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Petroleum geochemistry for basins on the eastern continental margin of Canada.
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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.
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Jansa, L.F., Pe-Piper, G., and Loncarevic, B., 1993
Appalachian basement and its intrusion by Cretaceous dykes, offshore southeast Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Keen, C.E., and Beaumont, C., 1990
Chapter 9 – Geodynamics of rifted continental margins.
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Keen, C.E., and Potter, D.P., 1995
The transition from a volcanic to nonvolcanic rifted margin off eastern Canada.
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Chapter 2 – Tectonic and geophysical overview.
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Kendell, K.L., 2012
Variations in salt expulsion style within the Sable Canopy Complex, central Scotian margin.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 49, no.12, p.1504-1522.

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.
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Klitgord, K. D., and H. Schouten, 1986
Plate kinematics of the Central Atlantic.
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An alternative early opening scenario for the Central Atlantic Ocean.
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Louden, K., Wu, Y. and Tari, G.C., 2012
Systemic variations in basement morphology and rifting geometry along the Nova Scotia and Morocco conjugate margins.
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McAlpine, K.D., 1990
Mesozoic stratigraphy, sedimentary evolution and petroleum potential of the Jean d’Arc basin, Grand banks of Newfoundland.
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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.
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MacRae, R.A., Shimeld, J.W., and Fensome, R.A., 2002.
Cryptic erosion on the Upper Cretaceous Wyandot Formation, Sable Island area, Scotian shelf.
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Malinconico, M.L. and Weems, R.E., 2011
Thermal maturity of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain based on legacy exploration and stratigraphic test wells, including Hatteras Light Esso #1.
Poster presentation, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11-14, 2011, Search & Discovery Article #50317 (2010).

Mukhopadhyay, P.K. and Wade, J.A., 1990
Organic facies and maturation of sediments from three Scotian Shelf wells.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, vol.38, no.4, p.407-425.

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.
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Offshore Energy Technical Research Association (OETR), 2011
Play Fairway Analysis Atlas - Offshore Nova Scotia.
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Pe-Piper, G. and Jansa, L.F., 1999
Pre-Mesozoic basement rocks offshore Nova Scotia, Canada: new constraints on the origin and Paleozoic accretionary history of the Meguma terrane.
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Pe-Piper, G. and Piper, D.J.W, 2004
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Fine-grain turbidites of the Amazon fan: facies characterization and interpretation.
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Piper, D.J.W., and Normark, W.R., 2001.
Sandy fans: From Amazon to Hueneme and beyond.
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Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication 99, p.61-80.

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Robertson Research, 2000
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Robertson Research, 2000a
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Robertson Research, 2004
Nova Scotia Shelf: Biostratigraphic and Sequence Stratigraphic Correlation of the Early Cretaceous Strata in Seven Wells - Report No.6620/Ib.
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Shell Canada Limited, 1986
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A comparison of salt tectonic subprovinces beneath the Scotian Slope and Laurentian Fan.
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Upper Cretaceous mass transport systems above the Wyandot Formation chalk, offshore Nova Scotia.
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Mesozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphy, eastern Scotian Shelf: new interpretations.
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A revised biostratigraphic and well-log sequence stratigraphic framework for the Scotian Margin, offshore eastern Canada.
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Palynological analysis of the interval 2265-3235 m in Shell Tantallon M-41, Scotian Shelf. 
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Crustal structure of the central Nova Scotia margin off Eastern Canada.
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