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THIS pamphlet does not pretend to add to our limited knowledge of the origin of petroleum or of its connection with the Tertiary deposits and volcanic activity of the Caucasus. It is in reality an appeal to English enterprise to direct its attention to at least the carrying trade of a district so rapidly growing in industrial importance. The enormous figures given (e.g. more than a million gallons a day from a single well) are enough, however, to stimulate scientific as well as Stock-Exchange inquiries, and the development of communications between Baku and the West is sure to be, sooner or later, fruitful in geological results.
The Coming Deluge of Russian Petroleum.
By C. Marvin. (London: R. Anderson and Co.)
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C., G. The Coming Deluge of Russian Petroleum . Nature 35, 295 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035295c0
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