Finding oil
Subtitle: the nature of petroleum geology, 1859-1920
By: Brian Frehner
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780803234864
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vernacular authority in the oil field; title: Collaborative authority : nineteenth-century foundations of petroleum geology; title: Contested knowledge; title: Shared authority : practical oil men and professional geologists; title: Institutional authority : field work, universities, and surveys; title: Appropriated knowledge; title: Geology organized : Hhenry I. Doherty's technological system.