1995 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Soil Gas
Author : Steven A. Tedesco
Published in: Surface Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploration
Publisher: Springer US
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The most common method for detecting and delineating a surface geochemical anomaly associated with a petroleum reservoir is measuring vapor or liquid hydrocarbons that have migrated to the surface or near-surface. The media in which these measurements occur are the soil, atmosphere, ocean water column, ocean bottom sediments, and groundwater or surface fresh water.