Beyond the Ice - Footprints of the Ice Age - part 2 of 14
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Mike: SW NY is the only part of the state with petroleum deposits. Do you think that there is a relationship between glacial loading and the absence of glacial loading around Olean and existing petroleum deposits in the area? Or is it the only part of the State with the right age strata present? Was most of the oil in the Southern Tier pushed into Northern PA?
Nice Video,
Tom
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Tom: You make an interesting point: as rebounding farther north has continued, maybe pressure on oil strata has eased, making it less economically viable to exploit? Geology is different - Pennsylvanian period, 350 million year old. Some wells still pull a few barrels a day from those deposits but cost of extraction became too expensive to compete with Okla/Texas, later Saudi 'gusher' fields. Quaker State still has a refinery at Warren, PA, I believe. -Mike Ameigh
msameigh 2 years ago