Above the layer of subfloor basalt lies a deposit of unconsolidated material of various compositions ranging from volcanic material to impact-formed regolith.
That still doesn't match the $2 a barrel cost in Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations, where huge deposits lie relatively near the surface.
Much of the land that it put off limits is around Teshekpuk Lake and the coastal plain where the oil industry believes the richest deposits lie.
These polar layered deposits lie under the permanent polar caps.
Its main deposit lies in the west of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, where it runs up to the Bohemian border, ending south of Pirna.
The deposit lies 6,000 and 15,000 feet below the surface.
The entire deposit lies inside a relatively small area (one mile by one-half mile).
Within its lands lies the richest deposits of iron ore in the whole mountain range, as well as other rich veins of other minerals and gemstones.
The richest deposits of sand in the state today lie in a coastal plain, between Guilford Point and Hatchett Point in Old Lyme.
Galling Japan is a realization that large deposits of oil and gas lie on the nation's watery fringes.