Potential Contaminant Pathways from Hydraulically Fractured Shale Aquifers

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 826-828

  Saiers, James E ^a   Barth, Erica ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SHALE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METHODOLOGY; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84868632016     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00990.x     Document Type: Article

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