Exploration for Petroleum and Natural Gas in the Nittany Valley
This exercise was developed as a collaborative effort by the faculty in the Department of Geoscience.
The major source of power for industrial use, the home, and transportation comes from burning fossil fuels including petroleum, natural gas and coal. To a lesser extent, wood and peat are also burned as a source of power but these two sources are less commonly used and neither accounts for a major fraction of the fuel used world wide.