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Author:
Plazak, Dan, 1951- author.
Title:
Doodlebugs & dowsers : a history of unusual ways to search for oil / Dan Plazak.
Publisher:
Texas Tech University Press,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
viii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subject:
Petroleum--Prospecting--United States.
Dowsing--United States.
Swindlers and swindling--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An oil industry without geologists -- All I have to do is dream -- Petroleum spirits -- The psychics -- Introduction to dowsing -- Early oil dowsing -- Oil dowsing in the age of geology -- A world of oil dowsers -- Introduction to doodlebugs -- When doodlebugs ruled the Earth -- Doodlebugs around the world -- Twilight of the doodlebugs -- Looking back, looking ahead.
ISBN:
1682831779
9781682831779
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1348285762
LCCN:
2023001601
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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