| Title: |
Jan Law
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Long Beach Area History: Responses to Subsidence and the Tidelands Controversy
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| Description: |
Jan Law was a petroleum engineer who demonstrated that oil production in Long Beach harbor caused subsidence there. While other geologists and engineers hypothesized about what was causing the land under the city to sink, Law conducted experiments that demonstrated in which underground, oil bearing strata the sinking was occurring.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Law, Jan
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker occupation: |
Petroleum engineer
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Locations discussed: |
California; Long Beach, CA; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
California; Engineers; Geologists; Geology; Long Beach, CA; North America; Oral history; Petroleum engineering; Subsidences (Earth movements)--Long Beach (Calif.); United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035242-38809
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