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Volume: 11 (1927)

Issue: 7. (July)

First Page: 683

Last Page: 703

Title: Fundamental Criteria for Oil Occurrence

Author(s): Frederick G. Clapp (2)

Abstract:

Criteria for oil occurrence are considered as being grouped into (a) fundamental criteria and (b) secondary criteria. This paper pertains mainly to those in the first group. Although geologists once considered that only three or four criteria must be affirmatively answered in order to predict oil occurrence, these have been supplemented from decade to decade, so that no less than eight fundamental criteria are now enumerated, all of which must be answered affirmatively if a district or locality is to be considered favorable for oil. These criteria are discussed in their various aspects and interrelations. In addition to a discussion of the fundamental criteria, a list of secondary criteria is given with the intention of making it the subject of an independent paper at a l ter date.

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