Scoping calculations on leakage of CO2 in geologic storage: The impact of overburden permeability, phase trapping, and dissolution

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 183, Issue , 2009, Pages 217-237

  Doughty, Christine ^a   Myer, Larry R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 79956050573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GM000343     Document Type: Article

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