| Title | Geochemical and isotopic data used to infer the origins of natural gas in groundwater of the Saint-Édouard area, southern Québec |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Bordeleau, G; Rivard, C ; Lavoie, D; Lefebvre, R; Malet, X; Ahad, J M E |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8505, 2019, 85 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/321053  Open Access |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf (Adobe® Reader®); rtf; xlsx (Microsoft® Excel®) |
| Province | Quebec |
| NTS | 21L/12 |
| Area | Saint-Édouard |
| Lat/Long WENS | -72.0000 -71.5000 46.7500 46.5000 |
| Subjects | hydrogeology; environmental geology; fossil fuels; geochemistry; Nature and Environment; Science and Technology; groundwater resources; aquifers; groundwater geochemistry; groundwater pollution; water
quality; petroleum resources; hydrocarbons; gas; methane; bedrock geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; structural features; faults; folds; isotopic studies; carbon isotopes; hydrogen isotopes; oxygen isotopes; radioisotopes; radon; tritium;
chlorine; hydrocarbon migration; flow regimes; fluid flow; well samples; geochemical analyses; metals; major element analyses; analytical methods; sampling methods; organic carbon; brine; St. Lawrence Platform; Lorraine Group; Pontgravé Formation;
Nicolet Formation; Sainte-Rosalie Group; Lotbinière Formation; Utica Shale; Les Fonds Formation; Bourret Formation; Trenton Group; Potsdam Group; Beekmatown Group; Chazy Group; Black River Group; Aston Fault; Jacques-Cartier River Fault; Logan's
Line; Methodology; Quality control; Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Ordovician |
| Illustrations | geoscientific sketch maps; stratigraphic columns; plots; tables; location maps; bar graphs; profiles; models; time series; histograms |
| Program | Environmental
Geoscience Shale Gas - groundwater |
| Released | 2019 11 26 |
| Abstract | (Summary)
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| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This Open File documents groundwater geochemical data in the St-Édouard-de-Lotbinière area, Quebec. The work was conducted within the framework of a
multidisciplinary project on potential impacts of shale gas activities on shallow groundwater in this region, where the Utica Shale below (~2 km) was targeted for shale gas exploration between 2006 and 2010. Geochemical analyses included
concentrations of ions, gases and trace metals, as well as isotopic analyses on water, dissolved inorganic carbon, alkanes, chloride, and strontium. The results provided key information on the origin of hydrocarbons found in groundwater and on
possible upward fluid migration. The general conclusion is that hydrocarbons (mostly methane) in groundwater come from the shallow bedrock itself and not from the Utica Shale. Nonetheless, some evidence of upward flow was found near a normal fault,
but this upward migration is inferred to be limited to a depth of few hundred meters. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 321053 |
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