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Excerpt from Waltersburg Sandstone Oil Pools of Lower Wabash Area, Illinois and Indiana At least 70 million barrels of Oil recoverable by normal primary methods has been discovered in the Waltersburg sandstone (upper Mississippian, Chester series) of the Eastern Interior basin up to January, 1950. Over half is from pools in an area of about 550 square miles along the lower reaches of the Wabash River (figs. I and 2) and most of the rest comes from pools within 18 miles northeast, east, and southeast. The area mapped in detail borders' the southeast side of the deepest part of the Eastern Interior basin and is a few miles north of the Rough creek-shawneetown fault zone. It offers examples which are typical Of the Waltersburg pools of the entire basin. The area is partly in Illinois, partly in Indiana, and touches the Kentucky boundary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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