Mountains and Oil.

8vo. (243)-255, (1) pp. With two geological diagrams in the text. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Rare scientific paper by a leading geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, John Vernon Harrison (1892-1972), investigating the relationship between mountain ranges and oil production and discovery. Harrison worked mainly in Persia and Iraq, and was responsible for sourcing many of the oil fields still in production today. During this period he also mapped an area of 30,000 square miles in the Zagros Mountain Range. In 1938 he joined Oxford University as a lecturer on Structural Geology. - The present paper discusses the role of mountains, their distribution, origin, constitution and destruction in the oil game, pointing out that mountains emerge where the greatest thickness of sediments assembles, concluding "the more sediment, the more the chance of oil" (p. 253). - Reprinted from the "Journal of the Institute of Petroleum", vol. XXX, no. 249. Handwritten ownership of the geologist J. W. Shelton to front cover. Old shelfmark to top right corner. Very well preserved. - Not in OCLC.