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The Bakken Blind Field: Investigating Planetary Urbanization and Opaqueness in the Oil and Gas Fields of Eastern Montana

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Pages 591-608 | Received 22 Sep 2019, Accepted 09 Apr 2020, Published online: 27 Jul 2020

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