Description:
This booklet has been prepared to meet the demand for and to
take the place of Bulletins No. 65, Oil and Its Geology, and No.
69, Prospecting for Petroleum, issued by the Arizona Bureau of
Mines four years ago, which have been out of stock nearly two
years. Both bulletins were written by the junior author of this
publication. While portions of the two old bulletins have been
incorporated into this work, most of Part I has been abstracted
with some modifications from an address delivered by the senior
author on May 29, 1919, at El Paso. Texas, which was later
published in the Arizona Mining Journal.
No attempt has been made to write a manual for petroleum
geologists; in fact, the end sought was merely to impress the
general public with the fact that the accumulation and distribution
of petroleum are governed by certain fairly well understood, but
generally unknown or unappreciated, laws which only a welltrained
and experienced geologist can satisfactorily apply. It
was, therefore, deemed unnecessary and even undesirable to go
into details or to discuss exceptions to and deviations from the
general statements made. The reader who wishes to know "the
whole story" is directed to the books on petroleum listed in the
Bibliography. 45 p.