BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 27, pp. 617-654 SEPTEMBER 30, 1917 



APPALACHIAN OIL FIELD ^ 



BY MYEOIT L. FULLER 



{Presented before the Society December 28, 1916) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 618 



Historical summary 620 



Early mention 620 



Early wells 621 



Opening of first American oil pool 622 



Later developments in Pennsylvania and New York 622 



Development of oil in West Virginia 623 



Development of oil in eastern Ohio 623 



Development of oil in Kentucky 624 



Development of oil in Tennessee 624 



Development of oil in Alabama 625 



Influence of geology on development of oil r . . . 625 



Stratigraphy 62S 



Formations represented 628 



Oil horizons 630 



General discussion 630 



New York 632 



Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia 632 



Ohio 634 



Kentucky 635 



Tennessee 635 



Alabama 635 



Structure of the Appalachian oil field 635 



General relations 635 



Structure in Pennsylvania 635 



Structure in West Virginia 636 



Structure in Kentucky 636 



Structure in Tennessee 636 



Structure in Alabama 638 



Origin of oil in the Appalachian field 638 



Relations of Appalachian oils to structure 640 



1 This paper is one of a series composing a "Symposium on tlie Geology of Petroleum." 

 See this volume, p. 156. 



Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society February 6, 1917. 



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