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AFTER the ill-fated Scott expedition of 1910–13 a valuable suite of Antarctic rocks, collected by Sir Raymond Priestley, was donated to the University of Nottingham. In it was a specimen from the Beacon Sandstone series collected from Cape Royds. This we have investigated to see whether such a series might conceivably possess the properties of reservoir or source rocks for oil.
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ELLIOTT, R., EVANS, W. A Beacon Sandstone : its Petrology and Hydrocarbon Content. Nature 199, 686–687 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199686b0
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