The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-04-17

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] pounded by William j. Knox, who hal
a world of experience in oil analyst.
and oil studies, as chief chemist for tn,
Westinghouse companies as well as
Phelps, Dodge & Co, operating in the
Appalachian fields, which taken in con.
%neetion with both the historical and
chemical data already presented,
reaches beyond the state of a mere in.
dication 20 that of embodiment and de.
vclopment of a substantial fact.
But further than this, there follow
the changes in the earth's crust, during
which plains ere crumpled up into
mountains, mountains sunk to profound
lcpths in seas, and floors of lakes, seas,
and oceans, are converted into dry
and, among which are two distinct oc.
curcnces. The subsistence and upheav-
ais consequent to contraction and ex-
~pansion of the inner sphere as a result
of change in density, before mentioned.
with effects in the atmosphere exhibited
ty the earthquakes at Lisbon, Charles
ton. Galveston and San Francisco. And
second, those ~blanketing processes by
deposition of sediments and procipi-
tatos, which from sheer weight and
mighty pressure, generate terrific heat
that combines with moisture retained
in all stratum, thereby producing a
state of frightful tension in the crust
itself. Thereafter aud suddenly,
Trough loss of equilibrium and retain
rg power ly the contraction and ox-
%oansion of the inner sphere, results
eruptions and explosions as witnessed
1t Sodom and Gomorrah, Pompeii and
H~oreulanoum, Java and Sumatra, st.
Vincent and Martinique and, more re
Gently. Sicily and Italy.
Stratified rocks are identical and
correlated through the fossil remains of
msrine f%aunas, principally. Necessary
to the composition and habitat of such
faunas, is a definite biological province
or environment, which may lie described
as beds of mud, clay, and sand, rich in
organic matter and lime precipitates,
in water of a mean and proper tenn
perature. So that while the faunas re-
fleet environment, the sediments re-
feet the varying conditions of deposi-
ton and precipitation that create this
environment.
Rehearsing the data already consid-
cred, in relation to the density of the
earth, the more or less molten matter
floating on the inner gaseous sphere,
the character of this matter as earbides
Of iron principally because of the dis
ISOLATION of other compounds at the
same temperature, the incandesccnt
state of these carbid,s by reason of the
exclusion of oxygen by the solid crust,
and the laboratory experiments leading
up to the producing of petroleum from
now in a position to consider the effect
of sea water upon the carbides floating
on the inner sphere beneath the lith-
csphore, with the conditions necessary
for the retention of hydrocarbons with
in the earth s crust till discovered by
man in drilling.
Having predicated causes for fssur-
ing and conditions for Identification
and correlation through marine fauna
and fora, of stratifed rocks of sedi-
mentary origin that occur in oil fields,
we find that assures occurring in the
seas under thick strata to great depths,
reach the incandescent lake of carbides
beneath, and that simultaneously with
the formation of aqueous and hydrocar-
bon vapors that begin to rise and as
cend, the walls of the assure with the
downrush and sucking power OF the
water, coincidently chokes and corks
up the fissure with mud, clay, sand,
shales and limestones, with animal and
vegetable matter. The fissure being eff
%fectually corked up, the vapors rising
and meeting the colder stream of water
and colder strata, would be condensed.
Rising to the cork, and being lighter
than water, the hydrocarbon compounds
would endeavor by reason OF their
gravity to migrate. What better me
dunn presents itself than beds of sand
or sandstone in which having found it's
level, the petroleum would then seek
to rise through all intervening strata
till it reached an impervious one made
up of clay and shales, there to await
discovery, retained and impeded IN ITS
progress to the surface by that sedl-
ment. that at once and coincidently
forms the cork to the fissure as well as
the environment or biological province
necessary to the composition and habi-
tat of such marine taunas and fioras,
through which rocks of a similar lith-
olopic character as found in oil fields,
are identified and correlated.
If, however, the everything bed OF
sediment was insufficient to cork up the
assure completely, then the oil would
reach the surface aud cooperating,