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Summary Information on the State Geological Surveys & the United States Geological Survey Bulletin of the National Research Council (1932) / Chapter Skim
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Oklahoma
Pages 93-94

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... The geologic staff had one chief geologist and two assistant geologists who worked full time, and one research observer provided by the American Petroleum Institute. During the summer field season, two to six college professors were usually employed to work on special problems.
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... PRINCIPAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE 1911 Practically all the work of the Oklahoma Geological Survey has been accomplished since 1911, as the Survey was not organized until 1908. In 1929 the Survey was completing a series of county reports on the oil and gas geology of the State, carrying on work in the mapping of coal fields, and making chemical analyses of the various coals of the
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