Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

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

• Publication date

  2011-05-09

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1100682108PMID 21555547PMCID PMC3100993
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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