scholarly journals Nineteeth Century Oil Exploration in North Carolina

2011 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-274
Author(s):  
JOHN HAIRR
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
The West ◽  
Outer Banks ◽  
Rock Formations ◽  
North Carolinians ◽  
Nineteeth Century ◽  
Piedmont Region

Abstract North Carolina has an abundance of mineral resources. Gold, uranium, copper and coal have been found and successfully extracted at one time or another, as have precious stones such as rubies, emeralds and sapphires. One very valuable natural resource has eluded North Carolinians—petroleum. Despite millions of dollars invested in searching for this valuable resource from the shadow of the Blue Ridge in the west to the abyssal depths of the Manteo Exploration Unit off the Outer Banks to the east, no one has yet discovered a commercially viable oil field in the rock formations underlying the Old North State. I attempt to correct many of the misconceptions that prevail concerning the early attempts to discover oil in North Carolina by discussing early efforts to locate oil here, and examine what was learned at a relatively early period about the potential for extracting petroleum from the Triassic Age rock formations of the Piedmont region of the state.

scholarly journals Lagniappe: Country Music in North Carolina: Pickin' in the Old North State

2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Gary R. Boye
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Country Music ◽  
American Music ◽  
Textile Mill ◽  
The West ◽  
Outer Banks ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Moravian Church

While all Southern states share historical connections in culture and geography, North Carolina is in many ways unique. From the Outer Banks to the industrial Piedmont to the High Country of the west, the state has a unique mix of regions and cultures. Music figures prominently in North Carolina, and its musicians reflect the diversity of the geography. The state’s earliest musicians were the Native Americans, especially the Cherokee, whose music has been recorded and studied in some detail. European-American music has flourishedsince colonial days: in Salem, the Moravian church has sponsored the development of sacred choral and instrumental music for over 200 years. In the early twentieth century a distinct African American blues style originated from the textile mill and tobacco towns of the Piedmont region.

scholarly journals Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Off the North Carolina Coast 1709–2011

2012 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
John Hairr
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Killer Whale ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Orcinus Orca ◽  
Killer Whales ◽  
The West ◽  
Outer Banks ◽  
The North ◽  
North Carolina Coast

Abstract Killer whales, Orcinus orca, were first reported off North Carolina by naturalist John Lawson in 1709, and during the 20th century were documented from North Carolina eight times in the scientific and popular literature. The most recent confirmed sighting of killer whales off North Carolina was in the spring of 2011. There have been no reports of killer whale deaths from North Carolina. There has been only one killer whale stranded along the North Carolina coast, with the animal being alive when it was returned to the sea. All sightings have been in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, none on the west side of the Outer Banks in the waters of Pamlico or Currituck sounds. Only three confirmed reports are from nearshore waters, while the rest were spotted more than 20 km offshore. Orcas are most frequently reported from the waters off the Outer Banks from Cape Lookout north to the Virginia border. A 200 yr gap exists in the historical record of killer whales from North Carolina.

“Scientific Certainty”: Wesley Critz George, Racial Science and Organised White Resistance in North Carolina, 1954–1962

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE LEWIS
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Maximum Effect ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Scientific Certainty ◽  
White Resistance ◽  
Group Members ◽  
North Carolinians ◽  
The University ◽  
Piedmont Region

In November 1954, Eugene “Gene” Hood, a former executive of North Carolina's Cone Mills, wrote an unsolicited letter to Wesley Critz George, Emeritus Professor of Histology and Embryology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Hood was writing in his capacity as de facto leader of an enclave of hard-line segregationists, based in North Carolina's Piedmont region. Six months had passed since the Supreme Court's Brown decision had effectively rendered segregation unconstitutional, and Hood and his colleagues were becoming increasingly agitated by the lack of an organised, coherent response to the Court's edict in the Tar Heel State. The Piedmont segregationists, a disparate group of lawyers and businessmen, refused to be cast as pariahs in the wake of Brown. Rather, they believed that a sizeable majority of white North Carolinians shared their views on the continued segregation of the races, and, moreover, that a significant number of them would be willing to join a crusade for all-out resistance to federally mandated desegregation. The group's overarching problem was one of trying to devise a strategy that would harness that pro-segregation opinion for maximum effect. On 22 November, after another round of discussions between the group members provided no satisfactory answers, Hood decided that it was time to seek an external stimulus. “I am convinced that we need a state-wide organization,” he wrote to George, “and I am wondering if you and your associates would consider doing something along that line.”

Petroleum geology of the West Siberian Basin and a detailed description of the Samotlor oil field

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Clarke ◽  
O.W. Girard ◽  
James Peterson ◽  
Jack Rachlin
Keyword(s):  
Oil Field ◽  
Petroleum Geology ◽  
The West ◽  
West Siberian Basin

Mineral resources of the Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Buncombe County, North Carolina

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Gardner Lesure ◽  
A.E. Grosz ◽  
B.B. Williams ◽  
Gertrude C. Gazdik
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Buncombe County

Estimation of copper ore deposit parameters – case study of Rudna Mine mining block R-1 (SW part of Poland) using geostatistics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Namysłowska-Wilczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Carbonate Rocks ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Ore Deposits ◽  
Upper Permian ◽  
Spatial Analyses ◽  
Copper Ore ◽  
Cu Content ◽  
Copper Mineralization ◽  
Rock Formations ◽  
Mineralized Zone

<p>This geostatistical study investigates the variation in the basic geological parameters of the lithologically varied deposit in mining block R-1 in the west (W) part of the Rudna Mine (the region Lubin – Sieroszowice, SW part of Poland).</p><p>Data obtained from the sampling (sample size N = 708) of excavations in block R-1 were the input for the spatial analyses. The data are the results of chemical analyses of the Cu content in the (recoverable) deposit series, carried out on channel samples and drilled core samples, taken systematically at every 15-20 m in the headings.</p><p>The deposit profile comprises various rock formations, such as: mineralized Weissliegend sandstones, intensively mineralized upper Permian dolomitic-loamy and loamy copper-bearing schists and carbonate rocks: loamy dolomite, striped dolomite and limy dolomite, of various thickness. No schists formed in some parts of block R-1, which are referred to as the schistless area. The deposit series here is considerably less mineralized (comparing with other mining blocks) even though the mineralization thickness of the sandstone and carbonate rocks reaches as much as 20 m.</p><p>The variation in the Cu content and thickness of the recoverable deposit and the estimated averages Z* of the above parameters were modelled using the variogram function and the ordinary (block) kriging technique. The efficiency of the estimations was characterized.</p><p>As part of the further spatial analyses the Z<sub>s</sub> values of the analysed deposit parameters were simulated using the conditional turning bands simulation. Confidence intervals for the values of averages based on the estimated averages Z* and averages <strong> </strong>based on the simulated values (realizations) Z<sub>s</sub>, showing the uncertainty of the estimations and simulations, were calculated.</p><p>The results of the analyses clearly indicate the shifting of the mineralized zone (the mineralizing solutions), sometimes into the sandstones while spreading throughout the floor of calcareous-dolomitic formations and sometimes into the carbonate rocks, partly entering the roof layers of sandstones. It can be concluded that the process of deposit formation and copper mineralization variation had a multiphase character and the lateral and vertical relocation of the valuable metal ores could play a significant role.</p><p>The combination of various geostatistical techniques - estimation and simulation - will allow for more effective management of natural resources of mineral resources, including copper ore deposits.</p>

Art. XIX.—An old Hebrew Romance of Alexander

1897 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-549
Author(s):  
M. Gaster
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
The Real ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bibliographical Information ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Great Mass

More marvellous and more remarkable than the real conquests of Alexander are the stories circulated about him, and the legends which have clustered round his name and his exploits. The history of Alexander has, from a very early period, been embellished with legends and tales. They spread from nation to nation during the whole of the ancient times, and all through the Middle Ages. Many scholars have followed up the course of this dissemination of the fabulous history of Alexander. It would, therefore, be idle repetition of work admirably done by men like Zacher, Wesselofsky, Budge, and others, should I attempt it here. All interested in the legend of Alexander are familiar with those works, where also the fullest bibliographical information is to be found. I am concerned here with what may have appeared to some of these students as the bye-paths of the legend, and which, to my mind, has not received that attention which is due to it, from more than one point of view. Hitherto the histories of Alexander were divided into two categories; the first were those writings which pretended to give a true historical description of his life and adventures, to the exclusion of fabulous matter; the other included all those fabulous histories in which the true elements were smothered under a great mass of legendary matter, the chief representative of this class being the work ascribed to a certain Callisthenes. The study of the legend centred in the study of the vicissitudes to which this work of (Pseudo-) Callisthenes had been exposed, in the course of its dissemination from the East, probably from its native country, Egypt, to the countries of the West.

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