Hugh McClellan is a native of Oregon. 

 After graduating from Stanford University, 

 he spent three years in mining on the West 

 Coast and a graduate year at Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology before entering the 

 petroleum industry as a geologist in the Mid- 

 Continent region. Of his thirty years in petrol- 

 eum exploration and exploitation, he was a 

 consultant for 15 years in Kansas, and for the 

 past 15 years has worked in California and 

 the Pacific Coast. 



Carl A. Moore received his Ph.D. in geology 

 from the University of Iowa in 1940. He was 

 employed by the Standard Oil Development 

 Company (Standard Oil Company of New 

 Jersey) in New York City as research geol- 

 ogist on the occurrence of oil in sedimentary 

 basins. In 1942 he was employed as field 

 subsurface geologist for The Carter Oil Com- 

 pany in Seminole and Oklahoma City. Since 

 1946 he has been at the University of Okla- 

 homa where he is Professor of Geology and 

 Chairman of the School of Geological Engi- 

 neering. He has worked primarily in sub- 

 surface geology techniques, the occurrence of 

 oil in sedimentary basins, and the geology of 

 South America. 



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