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A Deep Borehole at Formby, Lancashire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. E. Kent
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Discovery of a shallow oilfield in Triassic rocks in a fenland area west of Formby, as described by Lees and Taitt (1946, pp. 307–11), led to an attempt to determine the nature of the local Carboniferous rocks, which were regarded as the most likely primary source of the oil found in the Trias.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 85 , Issue 5 , October 1948 , pp. 253 - 264
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1948

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