Northern Rockies

 

Contributing Authors:

  • Jane Picconi
  • Fred Steece, South Dakota Geological Survey
  • Virginia Gillerman, Idaho Geological Survey

 

  1. Carlson, Marvin, 1989, Oil in Nebraska, Resource Report No.11, Nebraska Geological Survey, University of Nebraska: Lincoln, NE.
  2. Utah Geological Survey, 2001, Utah! 100 Years of Exploration: and still the place to find oil and gas, Public Information Series 71.
  3. McLeod, J., 1992, GeoNote, No. 21, Idaho Geological Survey: Moscow, ID

 

West

 

  1. Heylmun, Edgar B., 1999, Oil and Gas in Washington, International California Mining Journal, Volume 68, Number 9. 
  2. Utah Geological Survey, 2001, Utah! 100 Years of Exploration: and still the place to find oil and gas, Public Information Series 71. 
  3. Ritzius, D.E., et al., 1993, California Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources: An introduction, California Department of Conservation Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources: Sacramento, CA. 
    Oil and Gas Production History in California

 

Southern Rockies

 

Contributing Authors:

  • Jane Picconi
  • Brian Brister
  • Steve Rauzi

 

  1. Brister, B., 2002, New Mexico Earth Matters, Volume 2, Number 1, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources: Albuquerque, NM. 
    2. Landes, Kenneth K., 1970, Petroleum Geology of the United States, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.: New York, NY.
  2.  Utah Geological Survey, 2001, Utah! 100 Years of Exploration: and still the place to find oil and gas, Public Information Series 71.

 

Titusville, PA

  1. Fox, John S. (1989). "Some Geological Aspects of the Oil Creek Valley Region". History of the Petroleum Industry Symposium: September 17-20, 1989. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. pgs. 46-53.
  2. Dickey, P.A. (1941). Oil Geology of the Titusville Quadrangle, Pennsylvania: Pa. Geol. Survey, 4th series, Bull, M-22, 87 pp.
  3. Ansley, Jane E. (2000). Teacher Friendly Guide to the Geology of the Northeastern United States. Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY, 182 pp.

Spindletop, TX

  1. Thomas, W. A. (1953). "Geology of the Gulf Coast." AAPG, SEPM, SEG Guidebook: Field Trip Routes, Oil Fields, Geology. Joint Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, March, 1953. pgs. 21-29.
  2. Halbouty, M.T. and Barber, T.D. (1961). "Port Acres and Port Arthur Fields, Jefferson County, Texas." Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions. 11:225-234.

Signal Hill, CA Oil History

  1. Franks, Kenny A. and Lambert, Paul F. (1985)."Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940." Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. 243 pp.
  2. Yergin, Daniel (1991). "The Prize." Simon & Schuster, New York. 885 pp.
  3. Rintoul, William (1976)."Spudding In." California Historical Society, San Francisco. 240 pp.
  4. Lockwood, Charles (1980) "In the Los Angeles Oil Boom, Derricks Sprouted Like Trees." Smithsonian October, 1980. pp 187-206.

Paleontology

  1. Culver, S.J. 1993. Foraminifera. In "Fossil Prokaryotes and Protists." (Lipps, J.H., Ed.), pp. 203-247. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Boston, MA.
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