Reply to Engelder: Potential for fluid migration from the Marcellus Formation remains possible

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

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages

  Warner, Nathaniel R ^a   Jackson, Robert B ^a   Darrah, Thomas H ^a   Osborn, Stephen G ^b   Down, Adrian ^a   Zhao, Kaiguang ^a   White, Alissa ^a   Vengosh, Avner ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; SEA WATER;

COMPRESSION; DILUTION; DRILL; FLOW KINETICS; GAS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING FLUID; LETTER; LIQUID; MINERALIZATION; OIL SHALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; STRATIGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; UPPER DEVONIAN;

EID: 84871825650     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217974110     Document Type: Letter

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