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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007

Edward Orton: Pioneer in Petroleum Geology

Page Range: 54 – 59
DOI: 10.17704/eshi.12.1.4376045247518268
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Petroleum geology had its beginning in the nineteenth century. One of its leading adherents was Edward Orton of New York and Ohio. He left to that science an important body of writing, especially on the oil fields of the Cincinnati Arch province. His thought included an elaboration of the anticlinal theory. One of his classic works was The Trenton Limestone as a Source of Petoleum and Inflammable Gas in Ohio and Indiana (1889). That treatise and others too placed Orton in the forefront of petroleum geology in its formative period.

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