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6998 191 (1915-1916)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset38571 and id is 1 raw text is: GEOLOGY AND OIL PROSPECTS OF CUYAMA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. By WALTER A. ENGLISH. INTRODUCTION. The Cuyama Valley (shown in fig. 12), lying between the Santa Maria oil fields on the coast and the Sunset-Midway field in the San Joaquin Valley, has attracted the attention of oil men for many years; and were it not that the region lies far from the railroad and that the price of oil during the last few years has been so low as to render wildcat drilling somewhat unattractive, the valley would probably have been tested by a considerable number of wells before this time. The region not only lies between two of the richest oil fields of the State, but much of it is underlain by rock formations similar to those in which oil occurs in the productive fields, and in places oil seeps out at the surface. In order to determine whether or not oil might be expected to occur in commercial quantity in this region, and if so to point out the areas that offer the greatest promise, the writer undertook an examination during the fall of 1914. On the basis of the geologic evidence in hand the chance for the development of a commercially successful oil field in the Cuyama Valley may be regarded as poor; and it is highly probable that no field comparable to the larger of the present productive fields of California will be found here. It is possible that in a few small areas pools comparable in size to the smaller pools in Santa Clara River valley, in northern Ventura County, may be found, but this possi- bility does not seem to offer great encouragement for exploratory drilling. Throughout the field season the writer was assisted by Wallace Gordon, and many of the data here recorded are the results of Mr. Gordon's work. He also wishes to acknowledge the uniform courtesy and hospitality of the inhabitants of the region. PREVIOUS REPORTS. Although much of southern California has been studied by geolo- gists, there appears to be very little information published concern- ing the geology of the Cuyama Valley. The valley was visited in 1854-55 by one of the Pacific railroad survey parties, and the geology 191

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