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THE great increase in the demand for combined geological and topographic mapping of oilfields has led to the issue of books to teach the rudiments of geology to surveyors and of surveying to the geologist. These two manuals belong to this group. (1) The smaller, by Warner, is written with special reference to the conditions of the central oilfields of the United States, and it includes tabular summaries of their geological sections. The geology is otherwise so elementary that no oil company would be well advised to trust to geological surveys by men whose knowledge of the subject is so limited that they would gain any help from the chapters thereon in this book. Its concise mathematical tables, simple explanations of surveying methods, instructions for the preparation of convergence maps and for the verification of oil scums on seepages, may, however, render it useful to geologists who have had no special training in oil prospecting and may be called on to take part in this work.
(1) Field Mapping for the Oil Geologist.
By C. A. Warner. Pp. x + 145. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1921.) 13s. 6d. net.
(2) Field Methods in Petroleum Geology.
By Dr. G. H. Cox Prof. C. L. Dake Prof. G. A. Muilenburg. Pp. xiv + 305 + 11 plates. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1921.) 24s. net.
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(1) Field Mapping for the Oil Geologist (2) Field Methods in Petroleum Geology. Nature 109, 474 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109474a0
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