Partnership Between Geology and Geophysics in Prospecting for Oil

Abstract

It is my privilege to extend to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, on this celebration of its silver anniversary, the felicitations of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The contemplation of twenty‐five years of sound and progressive history is no doubt a source of deep satisfaction to those who founded the Association and to many others who helped to make it grow. Simultaneously, the Society which I am here representing is celebrating its tin anniversary. When this coincidence first came to my attention, I hoped to find that the alloying of silver and tin, a noble and a base metal, produces a product with useful properties not possessed by either component alone. The rhetorical advantages which would have followed are obvious. The metallurgical literature, however, dashed this hope so that this allegorical approach to my subject had to be abandoned.