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Helium

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham, UK

    D. Danabalan & J. G. Gluyas

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Chris J. Ballentine

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  1. Energy and Geoscience Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Rasoul Sorkhabi

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Danabalan, D., Gluyas, J.G., Ballentine, C.J. (2018). Helium. In: Sorkhabi, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02330-4_291-1

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