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Exploration crews have been probing the Tuscaloosa Sand since the early 1960s, but the gas proved elusive. Formed 65 million years ago in northern Louisiana and swept southward by ancient rivers, it lay hidden under a layer of limestone that distorted the echoes of shock waves by which geologists map underground formations. But a Chevron geologist's hunch, confirmed by tests using computer techniques, led prospectors to a swampy field on the Parlange plantation. When the drill bit spun into a zone of extreme pressure 21,345 ft. down, the gas and steam crushed the well casing, ripped...
...very strong in football," noted Frank H.T. Rhodes, considering Cornell University's door mat status on the gridiron this season. "But we're very good at Frisbee." The British-born geologist, who this week will be formally inaugurated as Cornell's president, may not help his school's pigskin standings, but no matter. "The great universities are those in which people grow by contact with others in ever-widening circles," insisted Rhodes, 51, after suiting up in his new Cornell colors to throw the old platter around...
Died. Bruce C. Heezen, 53, geologist and oceanographer who charted the ocean floor; of an apparent heart attack; while aboard a submarine, off the coast of Iceland. Heezen, who joined the Lament Geological Observatory when it was founded in 1949, helped discover and map the 47,000-mile-long globe-girdling system of ridges and rifts-a landmark in geology. Heezen also studied the role of turbidity currents (underwater rivers of mud) in shaping the contours of the sea floor, and theorized that glassy particles called tektites in the ocean sediment were the result of the collision of meteorites...
Possible reserves are more problematic. They represent, as one oil geologist puts it, "guesstimates," based largely on the observation of strata formations that in other areas have proved to encase oil and gas basins. The calculations can be miles off-literally, Alaskan topography intrigued oil geologists, but some thought that the reserves would be found on Alaska's south shore. Instead, the oil is gushing from the North Slope...
Where are the finds of the future? The list of places to look is long, but expectations are limited. Almost no oil geologist expects that a drill bit will some day chew into another Kuwait or Spindletop. Only in the Soviet Union, China and the Middle East are there untapped onshore areas that bear the geologic marks of major potential reserves, and even new strikes in the Middle East are expected to be less sensational than the discoveries of earlier drillings...