It has to be said that it’s never been a particular ambition of mine to mix with the luminaries of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Still, lots of interesting research does get done in the name of finding and extracting oil: if you want to know where it is, and how much there is, and the best way to get it out of the ground, you need to understand the depositional systems that generate source and reservoir rocks, and how the tectonic development of particular regions has generated hydrocarbons and the structural nooks and crannies that allow them to accumulate. And sometimes, getting to grips with these questions forces you to look at some quite fundamental aspects of Earth Sciences.
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