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The petroleum potential of the emerged and submerged Atlantic coastal plain of the United States The petroleum potential of the emerged and submerged Atlantic coastal plain of the United States

Increasing geological and geophysical information about the Atlantic continental shelf of the United States is changing the basis for judging the area's petroleum potential. No nation can afford to overlook an area that overlies 175,000 cubic miles (730,000 km3) of possibly petroliferous sediments (including the emerged coastal plain), though the first barrel of oil is yet to be produced...
Authors
J. E. Johnston, James Trumbull, G. P. Eaton

Climatology and the problems of western grasslands Climatology and the problems of western grasslands

Sixty years after Coronado, Don Juan de Onate wrote the first reasonably good description of the High Plains. He was near the present site of Wichita, Kansas, in 1601, when he arrived a t a large rancheria, or temporary Indian camp, containing more than 5000 souls. Onate's account expressed wonderment at the great extent of the level land, a t the numerous small streams bordered with...
Authors
Luna Bergere Leopold

Computations in magnetic and gravity interpretation Computations in magnetic and gravity interpretation

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Authors
Roland G. Henderson, J. R. Marsheck
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