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Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, 2014
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Core Lab Petroleum Services, 2005
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Deptuck, M.E., 2011
Potential shelf sources for deepwater reservoirs along the southwestern Scotian margin, and the impact of a hybrid ‘bypass-ponded’ slope on reservoir distribution.
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Call for Bids NS15-1 – Exploration history, geologic setting, and exploration potential: Western and Central regions. 
Canada -Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Geoscience Open File Report 2015-001MF, 49p, http://www.cnsopb.ns.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/deptuck_et_al_western_and_central_regions052815.pdf

Deptuck, M.E., Kendell, K., and Smith, B., 2009
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Deptuck, M.A, Kendell, K., Brown, D.E. and Smith, B.M., 2014
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ExxonMobil, 2002
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Fowler, M.G. and Obermajer, M., 2001
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Given, M.M., 1977
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GeoChem Laboratories, 2001
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Global Geoenergy Research Ltd., 2002
Geochemical Evaluation of sediments from Marathon et al. Annapolis B-24 and Annapolis G-24 wells (EL 2377), Scotian Basin, Eastern Canada.
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Global Geoenergy Research Ltd., 1992
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Keiraville Konsultants, 2005
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Variations in salt expulsion style within the Sable Canopy Complex, central Scotian margin.
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Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 181p.
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Malinconico, M.L. and Weems, R.E., 2011
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Marathon, 2002Annapolis Well G-24, EL 2377 – End of Well Report.
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Powell, T.G. and Snowdon, L.R., 1979
Geochemistry of crude oils and condensates from the Scotian Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada.
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Robertson Research International Limited, 1976a.
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Robertson Research International Limited, 1976b.
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Robertson Research International Ltd., 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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Shimeld, J., 2004
A comparison of salt tectonic subprovinces beneath the Scotian Slope and Laurentian Fan. 
Extended Abstract, 24th Annual GCS-SEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, Houston, p.502-532, CD-ROM.

Smith, B.M., Deptuck, M.E., and Kendell, K.L., 2010
Upper Cretaceous mass transport systems above the Wyandot Formation chalk, offshore Nova Scotia.
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Smith, B.M., Makrides, C., Altheim, B. and Kendell, K., 2014
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van Bentum, E.C., Reichart, G.-J., and Damsté, J.S.D., 2012
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Wade, J.A. and MacLean, B.C., 1990
Chapter 5 - The geology of the southeastern margin of Canada, Part 2: Aspects of the geology of the Scotian Basin from recent seismic and well data. 
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