Geology of Offshore Ireland and West Britain

2) contain introductory material regarding ge­ Historical Background ology and petroleum exploration techniques Only a few decades ago knowledge of the off­ which we trust will help the non-specialist, in shore geology west of Britain and Ireland was conjunction with some of the more general ref­ limited to a scattering of seabed samples. Dur­ follow the main erences cited in the text, to ing the last twenty five years, however, the parts of the chapters and the text figures. This tempo of ...