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to use geophysical survey data. He was credited with finding major oil fields in
Venezuela in 1922, in Michigan in 1927, in southern Illinois in 1936, and the Cumberland Field in Oklahoma in 1940. In 1927, he and his staff used geophysical data to find the large Van oil field in Texas, and in 1937 it was also used by him and his staff (working with Superior Oil) to find the Creole field in Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, which was the first offshore oil well in the world in tidal waters; see also
89:. He was profiled in National Petroleum News in 1929, was called "one of the leading geologists of the world" in a 1940 article about oil reserves, and was quoted as an "authority on oil reserves" in Popular Mechanics in 1944. He spoke regularly at regional and national conferences about oil discoveries.
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67:. They were married in 1920 and had three children; Elizabeth W. Bergstrom, a biologist; Edward B. Wasson, a petroleum geologist; and Anne Harney Gallagher, an art historian. Theron and Isabel divorced in 1953, and he married Ann Hand in 1959. He died in 1970 and was buried in Springville.
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Ecuador in a zone between Baeza-Coca and Canelos-Macas (in Spanish). Quito, Ecuador, Minister of Public Works Communications and Mines, bulls, no. 18, 19, and
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Department, The Pure Oil Company, Theron Wasson. Geographical Review Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct., 1940), pp. 676–678. (Calls the Mineral Map of Europe an "excellently condensed tabulation of mineral production in Europe.")
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51:. From 1916-1917 he worked as a geologist in NJ and OK, and enlisted in the US Army in 1917. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant at the First Army Engineer’s School at
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