Flow of formation waters: Likely cause for poor definition of soil gas anomalies over oil fields in East-Central Alberta, Canada

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 66, 1996, Pages 255-277

  Holysh, Stephan ^a,b   Tóth, József ^a  

^a Regional Municipality of Halten   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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