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Alaska Unconformity
Major Permian-Triassic Unconformity in Alaska
May 18 | USGS Newsroom

USGS released Professional Paper 1739-E, “A Major Unconformity Between Permian and Triassic Strata at Cape Kekurnoi, Alaska Peninsula: Old and New Observations on Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Potential”. The authors believe it has important economic ramifications for oil and gas exploration on the Alaska Peninsula and in the Cook Inlet basin.

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TransCanada Pipeline
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Barrow, Alaska Runs On Natural Resources
September 13 | National Public Radio

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