A Trip to the (Booming) Eagle Ford Shale Petroleum Fields
Wayne Ranney (noreply@blogger.com)
Here's something a little different. The geology I normally am involved with has little to no economic benefit. There are no resources extracted from studying the origin of ancient landscapes or how the Grand Canyon was carved. I recently visited San Antonio, Texas where right now, a modern-day oil boom is underway to the southeast of that proud city. New technology has allowed petroleum companies to drive their drills 11,000 feet beneath the desert floor to a rock unit known as the Eagle Ford S