 Huron shale from New York to Tennessee. The rock itself is frequently found saturated with petroleum, and the overlying strata, if porous, are sure to be more or less impregnated with it. "Third. The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately...  Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio - Page 66by Geological Survey of Ohio - 1888Full view - About this book
 | 1876 - 802 pages
...wells of Oil Creek penetrate strata immediately overlying the Huron shale, and the oil is obtained from fissured and porous sheets of sandstone of the Portage and Chemung groups, which lie just over the Huron and offer convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes. It is a •well-known fact... | |
 | Ohio. State Geologist - 1890 - 356 pages
..."Third. The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately overlying the Huron shale, and the oil is obtained from the fissured and porous sheets of sandstone...offer convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes." Particular attention is called to the first of the paragraphs above quoted. In it an adequate source... | |
 | Ohio. State Geologist - 1890 - 356 pages
..."Third. The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately overlying the Huron shale, and the oil is obtained from the fissured and porous sheets of sandstone of the Portage and Chemung groups, which He just above the Huron, and offer convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes." Particular attention... | |
 | Sir Boverton Redwood - 1896 - 478 pages
...— The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately overlying the Huron shale, and the oil is obtained from the fissured and porous sheets of sandstone...offer convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes." Professor Peckham has expressed the opinion that the different varieties of petroleum are the products... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - 1897 - 830 pages
..."Third. The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately overlying the Huron shale, and the oil is obtained from the fissured and porous sheets of sandstone...convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes."* Of Prof. Newberry' s theory it may be said that, while it is true that the shales contain oil in large... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - 1897 - 830 pages
..."Third. The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately overlying the Huron shale, and the oil is obtained from the fissured and porous sheets of sandstone of the Portage and ('helming groups, which lie just above the Huron, and offer convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes."... | |
 | Sir Boverton Redwood - 1922 - 454 pages
...Third.— The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately overlying the Huron Shale, and the oil is obtained from the fissured and porous sheets of sandstone...offer convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes." Peckham has expressed the opinion that the different varieties of petroleum are the products of fractional... | |
 | John Muirhead Macfarlane - 1923 - 474 pages
..."The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately overlying the Huron Shale, and the oil is obtained from the fissured and porous sheets of sandstone...offer convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes. It is a wellknown fact that wells, sunk into the black shale, yield no considerable quantity of oil,... | |
 | 1927 - 170 pages
..."Third. The wells on Oil Creek penetrate the strata immediately overlying the Huron shale, and the oil is obtained from the fissured and porous sheets of sandstone...offer convenient reservoirs for the oil it furnishes." Another clear statement of the distillation theory was early made by Peckham. In discussing the origin... | |
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