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CONSENSUS of geological opinion has long been opposed to the prospect of finding commercial oil-pools in England. Ever since the failure of war-time effort to locate petroleum resources (Hardstoft excepted as a modest memorial preserved from decay, by almost uncanny, albeit slender persistence), there has been nothing stirring in relevant geological knowledge of England to change such opinion. The last two decades have been productive of outstanding geological and oil-engineering achievements elsewhere, of progressive increase of knowledge of conditions governing the natural history and favourable loci of subterranean oil-pools; but they cannot by any stretch of proved fact or reasoned hypothesis be claimed as having sponsored hitherto unsuspected data to upset deep-rooted conviction in enlightened technical circles of Britain's unfortunate inability to reveal indigenous oil in industrial quantity.
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Petroleum in Britain. Nature 137, 551–552 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137551a0
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