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THE influence of mountain-building movements on oil migration and accumulation has long been recognised, and is so plainly manifest in different petroliferous provinces all over the world, that it has become one of the least controverted theories in the general hypothesis of oil occurrence. In the past decade, the teachings of the Alpine school in Europe have especially helped to clarify this relationship, and developments in the oilfields of Galicia, Rumania, Iraq, Persia, Burma (to cite only a few) are constantly impressing us with its significance.
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Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologist, vol. 4 pp. 1139–1149; 1927.
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MILNEB, H. Mountain-Building Movements and the Genesis of Petroleum. Nature 122, 421 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122421a0
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