# Oil: From Small Beginnings

Produced by the BBC for the British Open University

Describes the optimum geologic conditions for oil formation and considers the controversy between earth scientists and chemists over the nature of the oil-forming process at work in the earth's crust. From the Earth: Scructure, Composition, and Evolution series

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1981
- By: Media Guild, Open University, British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/oilfromsmallbeginnings)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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