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Science 19 May 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3777, pp. 934 - 935
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3777.934
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Iodide Abundance in Oilfield Brines in Oklahoma

A. Gene Collins 1 and G. C. Egleson 2

1 U.S. Bureau of Mines. Bartlesville, Oklahoma
2 Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan

Samples of subsurface water, oil, and rock from strata of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian age in the Northern Oklahoma Platform area were analyzed. Several of the water samples contained iodide at more than 500 parts per million. Analyses of the brines and rock indicated that the iodide originated organically.

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