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Identifier: productionuseofp00prutrich (find matches)
Title: Production and use of petroleum in California
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Prutzman, Paul W. (Paul Wyckoff), 1872-1953 California State Mining Bureau
Subjects: Petroleum
Publisher: Sacramento, Calif. : State Printing Office
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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FIELD OPERATIONS—LOS ANGELES. 27 LOS ANGELES CITY FIELD. The City field of Los Angeles is peculiar in that it is situated, notmerely within the eity limits, but in a thickly settled residence district.Los Angeles is built on low. rolling hills, and over these hills the oilfield stretches in a strij) over three miles long, varying in width fromone fourth to three fourths of a mile, Iunning a little north of east andsouth of west, through the northwestern part of the city. The geological formation is of Middle Neocene age, and has the formof a Hat anticline, though somewhat broken. At the western end thesands approach the surface, some wells here being as little as 300 feetin dejith; still farther west the sands crop. At the eastern end thegreatest depth is some 1500 feet, the average being one or two hundredfeet less; this end of the field is cut off abruptly, apparently by a fault.The production is greater at the eastern end of the field, and the oillighter, though in all parts of t

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