Looking for oil and gas in the Yukon Flats

Geologists from the DGGS and the U.S. Geological Survey are taking a renewed interest in the Interior Alaska’s Yukon Flats basin

Alan Bailey

PNA Contributing Writer

With so much attention on the exploration of the North Slope and the Cook Inlet, it's easy to forget that there are other potential oil and gas basins in and around the Alaska. Take, for example, the Yukon Flats basin that extends beneath the Yukon River, between the trans-Alaska pipeline and the Ca....

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