People Who Contributed to this Project
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Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California | Writer and historian, California Department of Conservation, Sacramento, California | Organic geochemist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California | Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California |
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Petroleum Geochemist, U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, Colorado | Organic Geochemist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, California | Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California | Geology Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri |
At Work in the Field
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Les Magoon is shown here sampling some Cretaceous limestone that may be the source of oil found in the New Almaden Mine area, near San Jose, California. |
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Tom Lorenson is shown here collecting a gas sample from the Vichy Spring seep in northern California. |
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Paul Lillis is shown here capturing some oil from a well in the Petrolia Field, the first oil field discovered in California. |
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URL: http://seeps.wr.usgs.gov/seeps/people.html Maintained by fcole@octopus.wr.usgs.gov Last updated 5/18/99