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Doodlebugs & dowsers : a history of unusual ways to search for oil / Dan Plazak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plazak, Dan, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum--Prospecting--United States.
- Petroleum.
- Dowsing--United States.
- Dowsing.
- Swindlers and swindling--United States.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Petroleum--Prospecting.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Doodlebugs and dowsers
- Place of Publication:
- Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2023]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Plazak, Dan, 1951- Doodlebugs and dowsers
- ISBN:
- 9781682831779
- 1682831779
- OCLC:
- 1348285762
- Publisher Number:
- 99995465470
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