Beyond the Ice - Footprints of the Ice Age - part 2 of 14

This segment describes the region near Olean, N.Y. not covered by the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last ice age. Featured are rock formations from the Pennsylvanian period, outcrops that are unique in all of Upstate New York. Segment was videotaped at Rock City Park: http://www.rockcitypark.com
Excerpted from the television documentary 'Footprints of the Ice Age: the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Upstate New York' produced and narrated by Michael S. Ameigh.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Salamanca
• re-entrant
• Rock City
• Pennsylvanian period
• Wisconsinan
• Laurentide
• Olean
• Pleistocene
• Michael S. Ameigh
• WCNY

[msameigh]

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

[lkellermanl543]

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[MrTombiel]

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