Comment on "hydraulic fracturing in faulted sedimentary basins: Numerical simulation of potential contamination of shallow aquifers over long time scales" by Claire Gassiat et al.

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1872-1876

  Flewelling, Samuel A ^a   Sharma, Manu ^a  

^a GRADIENT   (United States)

Author keywords

brine; frack; fracking; groundwater; pressure diffusion; secondary porosity

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; DIFFUSION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROSITY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

EID: 85027938439     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015904     Document Type: Article

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