Reply to Saba and Orzechowski and Schon: Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gaswell drilling and hydraulic fracturing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages

  Osborn, Stephen G ^a   Vengosh, Avner ^a   Warner, Nathaniel R ^a   Jackson, Robert B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; DEUTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; ETHANE; METHANE; NATURAL GAS; WELL WATER;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAS ANALYSIS; GAS WELL DRILLING; GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 80053076319     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109270108     Document Type: Letter

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