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Volume: 24 (1940)

Issue: 6. (June)

First Page: 1112

Last Page: 1125

Title: Significant Developments in California, 1939

Author(s): E. R. Atwill (2)

Abstract:

Stratigraphic traps have assumed an increasingly important place in the consciousness of California geologists. All possible structures, new and old are being scrutinized or reviewed with this dominant thought in mind.

Four new oil fields were discovered in California during 1939, one of which is definitely established as a field of major proportions. In addition, five important extensions of known fields were made.

The near-future exploration in California will probably be guided largely by detailed subsurface studies in the vicinity of proved fields, although use of the reflection seismograph will continue but in lesser degree. Wildcat drilling in the state is declining as more and more thought is devoted by company managements to the financing and arrangement, under rather severe curtailment, of required development programs in recently discovered fields.

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