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Volume: 10 (1926)

Issue: 11. (November)

First Page: 1073

Last Page: 1117

Title: Oil Prospects in Northeastern China

Author(s): Myron L. Fuller (2), Frederick G. Clapp (3)

Abstract:

By far the greatest part of northeast China consists of rocks of types and ages in which there is no possibility of oil. Some areas, however, deserve consideration. Among these the most important is the Shensi basin, situated in northern Shensi Province overlapping into extreme western Shansi, eastern Kansu, and a bit of southern Inner Mongolia. Shensi basin was studied in reconnaissance and local detail by the writers and assistants. Two brief papers have appeared on the subject, but the following is the first authentic account of the oil geology of this area specifically, and of northeast China in general. This basin appears to have some chance for oil production on a small scale, but there is unlikely to be intensive oil development in it. The rocks are in general too andy throughout great vertical thicknesses, the marginal areas are too highly folded and perhaps too greatly metamorphosed, whereas the central areas are mainly monoclinal and so flat-dipping as not to permit accumulations in quantity.

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