Does anyone know what type of rock petroleum geologists search for?
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There are several types of sedimentary rock that act as reservoirs & caprocks for oil & natural gas.\n\nReservoir rocks must have a certain degree of porosity (containing holes) & be permeable (able to move through). Some of these may include limestone, other carbonate rocks (such as what James said earlier), shale, & sandstone.\n\nOn top of these reservoir rocks are cap rocks. They must be impermeable as to not allow the oil/natural gas to escape. These can include limestone & shale as well.\n\nGeologists also look for certain physical structures such as salt domes & anticlines.\n\nSalt sometimes serves as caprock for oil reservoirs. Rising salt domes are sometimes dead giveaways for oil deposits. Many of these occur in the Gulf States.\n\nAnticlines are upward folds in rocks. Under the right conditions, anticlines serve as traps.\n\n:)
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Your best course would be to visit such an industry and/or ask someone that currently works in that field.  I know you can study Geology for oil related work.  Obviously, chemistry for the other.  Good Luck!
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archeologist/ geologist
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Geologists do a lot of things:\n- Study rocks and sediments to understand the source and composition \n- Explore regions for oil (petroleum geologists), minerals (exploration geologists) and water (Hydrogeologists)\n- Study past present and future climate (paleoclimatologists)\n- Study fossils (paleontologists)\n- Study the way rocks form and deform (Structural geologists)\n- Study earthquakes (seismologists/geophysicists)\n- Work for oil, mininng and governement agencies\n- Work for environmental organizations\n- Work for drilling, construction or development agencies\netc
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The petroleum industry always pays well, or you could go on to graduate work and then enter any type of industrial research for big bucks.  Analytical chem would probably be your best bet for a specialization if you want to avoid grad school.
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I have been around natural gas. No thanks. I want to be one of those skelatons they find on the discovery channel. The scientists would find my body in a shallow pit not far from Taco bell with a remote control in my hand. They would speculate that I died young and dumb. But if oil is my only option, I say OK. Coal makes your hands dirty.
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Can you scan it and post a picture?\n\nYou could look in the yellow pages under "Geologist."\n\nYou could take it to the geology department of a college or university.
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You can start with www.pei.org        \nIt might get you into the right direction.\n\nor, I'm in KY and there is an organization called KY petroleum marketers assn.  I'm sure there are others in each state.   Try www.m-pac.org  it may help you also!
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It would help to find useful archaeologists if you tell where you found those slate stones. While I know a couple of archaeologists, they are specialized on Aegean Bronze Age or Viking Age rather than Stone Age Britain, which wouldn't be too helpful.
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Since this is your first question for Yahoo! answers I would like to make sure you have a good experience and be sure you get a good answer. I am an earth scientist, specifically a geologist. I specialize in sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of carbonate rocks. What I love about carbonate rocks is that they were all 'born.' Carbonate rocks are made from living things like oysters, clams, coral, algae, and even microbes. Sedimentology is the study of how these rocks formed as they were laid down as sediments, and sequence stratigraphy is the study of how those rock deposits are related in space and time to cycles of the earth's orbit and changing sea levels.  Another special interest of mine is speleology, the study of caves, and I am most interested in paleocaves which are ancient caves that in most cases have collapsed and been buried. \n\nEarth science is one of the most inclusive of all fields of science. Some fields of earth science are geology, oceanography, atmospheric science, glaciology, hydrology, and soil science. In practice earth science uses chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, geography, and often includes engineering as well. Many "earth" scientists also study other planets. One of my friends makes maps of Venus. There are interdisciplinary fields of earth science like biogeochemistry which studys the cylces of things like carbon, nitrogen, and other chemicals through the environment. \n\nAs a geoscientist I have had the good fortune to work in many interesting places, such as Chile, Ethiopia, Albania, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, and just about every state in the US. I visited the world's largest copper mines in Chile, and the worlds driest desert, the Atacama. I worked in the Awash basin in Ethiopia among the Afar tribes. I worked in caves in Barbados and in Puerto Rico. I spent several years working in the Grand Canyon, and have been on top of Mt. St. Helens, the well known volcano. I have also visited volcanoes in Hawaii. I can think of no other field of study that can lead to so many exotic places. I can also say with certainty that I have been places on this planet where no other man had been before me, deep inside of caves. I've also had the great pleasure of studying carbonate rocks in the ocean, by diving.  \n\nAn ineresting website that describes the varied things an earth scientist does:\nhttp://www.earthsci.org/education/careers/geolo/geolo.html\n\nAGI has a lot of interesting earth science images:\nhttp://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/index.html\n\nHere is a USGS website where you can see a live image of a volcanic eruption (when they get snow cleaned off the webcam): http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Augustine.php\n\nOne of the best link sites for earth sciences:\nhttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/EarthLinks.html
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for starters\n\n0) Digging/going down mines, though that doesn't get very far!!!\n\n1) Seismic waves from earthquakes - they spread through the Earth and are picked up by seismographs all over the world - there are 2 types that travel through, p-waves and s-waves, but the 2 types are not picked up all over; s-waves don't travel through liquids.\n\n2) Lab investigations of the materials that are likely to be within the earth, under appropriately high temperatures and pressures\n\nPutting the results of these together has built up a model of a thin crust, mantle, liquid outer core and solid inner core.\n\nYou may want to search for terms like:\nseismology, body wave, shadow zone, p-wave (promary wave), s-wave (secondary wave)
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Try Wikipedia, or perhaps your local library has a general Geology book that you can reference
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I once worked for an oil company that was exploring that area. Most of the major oil companies are watching that area, as well as the Indian and Bangladeshi petroleum companies. \n \nSo far oil reserves in Bangladesh are fairly minor (56 million barrels). Gas reserves are more significant with 32-38 trllion cubic feet. There is some speculation that the burial rate was too fast for the Ganges River delta and that is the reason there is more gas than oil. \n\nAs a petroluem basin there seems to be great potential for that area. British company Cairn Energy is spending $50 million to drill three exploration wells in the Bay of Bengal to confirm a potential hydrocarbon discovery. Thier latest update confirms a high production rate of 50,000 barrels per day for the Ravva field. They also expressed that the reservoir is much more complicated that they originally thought. \n\nAs for other minerals, I am not aware of any that are there that can be mined.  The concept of mining manganese nodules from the deep sea floor was conceived in the 1970's but so far no one has been able to make it economical, and the International Law of the Sea Treaty actually prohibits this mining in most locations.
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Enviromental Careers, eh?\n1.  Professional Geologist - Can do anything that involves the earth.  Subsurface investigations for oil, water, methane, natural gas, and etc.  Also can provide foundation strength information for construction projects.  \n\n2.  Enviromental Consulting and Research - Does studies to investigate ground conditions for development.  Studies subsurface strata (composition, strentgh, and/or hydrology), provides summaries of contamination in the soil, and ways to clean up contamination.\n\n3.  Hydogeologist - studies groundwater supplies.  Most are independant or work for the gov't.\n\n4.  Enviromental Lawyers - they do all the leagl begal stuff\n\n5.  Enviromental Engineers & Landscape Planners - Provide ways to utilize green spaces to benficial for animals and humans.\n\nThere are many more, these are just off the top of my head.
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look here http://www.rocksandminerals.adventuresinodyssey.be/
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Click below for much more.\n\n\n\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum
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Petrology is a large area, what kind of instruments do you have in mind? Supply further detailed info.