 | Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...defined on the southern side, but merging into a cloud of spray 30 yards broad on the other. . . . The diameter of the tube up which the oil was rushing was 10 inches. On issuing from this the fountain formed a clearly defined stem, about 18 inches thick,... | |
 | Geology - 1886 - 728 pages
...basin formed round about the bottom of the derrick, where the oil was bubbling and seething around the stalk of the oil-shoot like a geyser. The diameter...inches. On issuing from this, the fountain formed a clearly defined stem about eighteen inches thick, and shot up to the top of the derrick, where in striking... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1886 - 522 pages
...basin formed round the bottom of the derrick, where the oil was bubbling and seething round the stulk of the oil-shoot like a geyser. The diameter of the...inches. On issuing from this the fountain formed a clearly defined stem about eighteen inches thick, and shot up to the top of the derrick, where in striking... | |
 | Sir Boverton Redwood - Natural gas - 1896 - 478 pages
...round about the bottom of the derrick, where the oil was bubbling round the stalk of the oil shoot like a geyser. The diameter of the tube up which the oil was rushing was 10 inches. On issuing from this, the fountain formed a clearly denned stem about IS inches thick and... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - Geology - 1897 - 830 pages
...Products, 1896, 25. the bottom of the derrick, where the oil was bubbling around the stock of the oil shoot like a geyser. The diameter of the tube up which the...inches. On issuing from this the fountain formed a clearly defined stem about eighteen inches thick, and shot up to the top of the derrick, where, in... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - Animals - 1897 - 830 pages
...Products, 1896, 25. the bottom of the derrick, where the oil was bubbling around the stock of the oil shoot like a geyser. The diameter of the tube up which the...inches. On issuing from this the fountain formed a clearly defined stem about eighteen inches thick, and shot up to the top of the derrick, where, in... | |
 | Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company - Petroleum - 1922 - 328 pages
...round about the bottom of the derrick, where the oil was bubbling round the stalk of the oil shoot like a geyser. The diameter of the tube up which the...inches. On issuing from this, the fountain formed a clearly defined stem about 18 inches thick and shot up to the top of the derrick, where, in striking... | |
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... yards broad on the other. A strong southerly wind enabled us to approach within a few yards of the crater on the former side, and to look down into the sandy basin formed round about the bottom of the derrick, where the oil was bubbling around the... 