130:. The two geologists worked together from 1930 to 1937 for nearly eight years â performing fieldwork in difficult mountainous terrain and ultimately mapping, both geologically and topographically, nearly 90000 square miles (roughly 233000 square km) of country. A topographical surveying team, led by W. E. Browne, worked ahead of the geologists to provide a trigonometric base-map, providing a basis for the topographical base-map with geological information. In the territory mapped, much of the tribal country of the
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Petroleum
Company's worldwide exploration interests and retained the company's strong links with Iran and other countries in the Middle East. By 1965, when Falcon retired, the British Petroleum Company held the rights to slightly more than 20% of worldwide oil reserves outside Soviet Russia. During his decade-long stewardship, the company found major new reserves in
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in corporate matters of oil exploration. In 1954 AIOC was renamed the
British Petroleum Company. Falcon initiated a review of the world's major sedimentary basins and at the company's London office established a geological library and information service available to the company's overseas offices. He recruited specialists in various technical specialities, such as
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from 1951 to 1954, Iran seized control of AIOC's
Iranian assets. Thus, AIOC lost its main source of crude oil and AIOC's management led the company's worldwide search for other reserves of petroleum and natural gas. In 1953 Falcon was appointed AIOC's Geological Manager, directly assisting G. M. Lees
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for further training and assisting in the development of aerial mapping in Iran. The outbreak of WW II found him still in secondment to Shell plc in The Hague. In May 1940 he boarded one of the last ships to leave the
Netherlands for the UK before the invasion by the German army. In 1940 Norman and
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In 1955, upon the death of G. M. Lees, Norman Falcon was promoted to Chief
Geologist of the British Petroleum Company. In 1955 the British Petroleum Company returned to Iran but held only a 40% equity in the consortium that replaced AIOC's Iranian monopoly. Falcon greatly expanded the British
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British Isles â the data became enormously valuable for oil exploration of the North Sea. The
39:, UK â 31 May 1996) was a British geologist, known for his contributions to discoveries of petroleum and natural gas reserves. He was one of the outstanding petroleum geologists during the era from the 1920s to the 1960s when almost all of the oil exploration was done onshore.
95:. Until his retirement in 1965 he remained an employee of the British Petroleum Company and its two predecessor companies, except for his military service from 1940 to 1945. Although he published a number of papers, most of his research is recorded in confidential reports.
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176:, Scotland. Later in 1938, AIOC reassigned him to work on Iranian geology by using aerial photography and he learnt to pilot small airplanes. In 1939 he was
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Falcon, N. L. (1969). "Problems of the relationship between surface structure and deep displacements illustrated by the Zagros Range".
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In retirement, Falcon remained, from 1965 to 1972, an advisor to the
British Petroleum Company. For some time he was an advisor to the
165:, Norman L. Falcon married Dorothy Muriel Freeman. They had a son born in 1939, another son born in 1941, and a daughter born in 1945.
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373:. Upon his death he was survived by his widow, three children, and four grandchildren. As a posthumous honour, the
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became a major new area of importance in oil exploration. Falcon became involved in developing the oil industry in
59:. There he graduated in 1927 with a B.A. in geology and later graduated with an M.A. At Cambridge his mentors were
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and in 1961 to the drilling of the UK's first offshore oil well. The oil well was located on an anticline in
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In 1960, the Falcon family moved to a large
Edwardian house with a 4.5 acre (about 1.8 hectare) garden in
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Norman Leslie Falcon had a sister and an older brother. Their parents were Thomas
Adolphus Falcon,
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Falcon, Norman Leslie (1961). "Major Earth-Flexuring in the Zagros Mountains of South-West Iran".
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Harrison, J. V.; Falcon, N. L. (1938). "An Ancient Landslip at Saidmarreh in Southwestern Iran".
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Lees, G. M.; Falcon, N. L. (1952). "The Geographical History of the Mesopotamian Plains".
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programme work led to a better understanding of British stratigraphy, particularly of the
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers
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87:. In late 1927 Falcon became an employee of the
79:. In 1927 Falcon was appointed geologist to the
910:"Norman Leslie Falcon. 29 May 1904â31 May 1996"
67:, and Tressilian Charles Nicholas (1887â1989).
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