The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-09-07
SURFACE INDICATIONS OF OIL AND GAS.
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Of rock which indicate that the pre-
cious metals may be found there in
some form, and there are certain form
atoms on the surface Of the ground
which are signs that oil or gas may be
found thereabouts under the surface
OF the ground The object OF this srti-
I Gle is to induce everyone who feels any
interest in the matter TO keep their
eyes open when roaming around, and
perhaps some one Of our readers may
run across the formation which tells
/ that il might pay to bore deep hole
in the ground to find out whether there
is oil there. You may find that which
will make you a millionaire.
In this article we have made use of
the writings OF Prof. Chas. n. Gould,
State Geologist Prof Gould is, prob
ably, the most experienced geologist
/ in the west, especially in the field of
oil and gas. and his teaching along this
! line is very valuable. In an exhaust
i've article dealing with surface indica-
tions Of oil aud gas, Prof. Gould gives
the following description Of surface
indications:
There is a new word abroad in the
land Two years ago not one person
iu a thousand living in Oklahoma or
Kansas had ever heard the word anti
cline To-day in certain localities At
is fast becoming one OF the most popu-
lar words in the language,
Just what an anticline is, aud what
it looks like, and what are its size, fash.
ion and form-these are questions
about which most people have very
hazy notions. We are not sure, many
OF US, that we would be able 20 recog-
nize an anticline if we met one in the
road,
matter plain, may l try to answer q
few very simple and elementary ques-
tions about anticlines?
What Is An Anticline?
"An anticline is an arch or high place
in the rocks, blister on the earth's
surface, turtle rock, if you please, a
place where some great force has
showed up the rocks and raised them
above the level of the surrounding
rocks. The intervening low place, or
trough, is called syncline.
What causes Anticlines and Syn
clines?
Usually the shrinking and contrac-
ton Of the earth's crust, although it
may be one of a number of a series of
stresses and strains set up by the
earth movements.
"How large is an Anticline?
"ThIs is like asking how large is a
farm, or how large is house. Some
anticlines are only few feet across
Others are many miles in diameter and
hundreds Of miles long, as, for Instance
some of the Oklahoma anticiines stu
ated in the McAlesier country. The
one at Augusta, Kansas, is about eight
miles long, the Healdton anticline is
six to eight miles long. the Gushing
field consists OF a series OF anticlines,
each four to seven miles long, arranged
end to end The longest single anti
cline Of which know, in Kansas, has
been traced for a distance OF thirty
five miles,
What is the shape OF an snticline'
"The shape varies as much rs the
size, In general they are oysl-shsped
with the length from two to four times
the width. Sometimes they are circu-
- lar, like an inverted saucer. The New
kirk snticline is shaped like an invert-
ed spoon. with the handle stretching
southwest toward Poncs City, The
long anticline OF which just spoke ID
shaped more like q snake that winds
its way for thirty-fiye miles across the
Flint Hills.
Occur How FrequsntlyS
There is no general rule. In some
regions all the country consists OF q
series OF anticlines with intervening
synclines. This is true OF the McAies-
ter-Muskogee-Fort Smith eouG:ry in
eastern Oklahoma and western ArkAn-
sas. In eastern Kansas and much oi
eastern Oklahoma the structure ID
monoclinsl, with.low but regular dip,
to the west and northwest away from
the 0Hsrk uplift There may be but q
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