POPULAR OIL GEOLOGY (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Popular Oil GeologyThe following pages represent an elaboration of a number of popular lectures in the geology of oil and gas. These were delivered during the past winter, in part at the Colorado School of Mines and in part in the City of Denver, under the auspices Of the Colorado State Oil Com mission. This little book is not intended to be a general treatise on the subject of oil and gas geology. It is not intended for the experienced oil geologist. It is written for the man without technical or scientific training in this branch of geology. Every attempt has been made to pre sent in as simple language as possible the fundamental principles of oil geology, and to render these intelligible to the layman who may be interested in this subject from the practical standpoint, or for the sake of making invest ments, or perhaps only because of a desire to add to his general knowledge. Anyone who wishes to continue his studies in this subject is referred to the treatises mentioned below, or to the authors Principles of Oil Geology, which is now in preparation, and to which this little book is really an introduction.I have not hesitated to draw liberally on the literature of petroleum. Because of the nature of the book, and in the desire to keep it as free as possible from unnecessary material, I have purposely refrained from citations and acknowledgments in the text. I have used most freely the following works