Folds, faults, fissures, and fractures
New techniques allow explorers to unravel the twisted mysteries that lie below the Foothills
Exploration teams miss their targets more often than they like, especially in the Foothills Front region. Often they must drill more than one multi-million-dollar well to locate the natural gas they know lies beneath the fractured, folded, corrugated layers of rock. At a minimum cost of $3.8 million for a 2,800-metre-deep well-more than the cost of a mansion in Mount Royal-that's an expensive proposition.
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