Monthly passes, brothers!

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The work began the next day.

It doesn't seem to be as simple as it seems...... The team needs to carry out a large number of surveys and mapping on the surface, divide the key areas into depressions, convex grounds, etc., and then drill into the samples, and use rock samples to roughly analyze the structure of the underground rock formations. Finally, a well is drilled at the anticline to see if there is oil.

"Do you know why there must be oil in the anticline?" Buckhouse said as he drew a few curves on the drawing: "The raised ones are anticlines, and the concave ones are anticlines." These rock formations are like curved and closed water pipes, which contain water and oil...... Because oil is lighter than water and always floats in the water, over time, the oil will float to the higher anticline, and the incline is only water. ”

"In other words, if we hadn't drilled a well in the anticline, it would have been very difficult for us to find oil!" Qin Chuan pretended to be a studious student.

"Of course!" Buckhouse replied.

This means...... Is oil always at the bottom of the mountain? Kuhn couldn't help but interject: "Then why don't we dig a well directly from the mountain?" ”

"Oh!" Professor Buckhouse laughs, "If you think that the bulge on the surface is an anticline, you are very wrong. In fact...... The mountains we see are often oblique, because the anticline has been weathered, eroded and sunken over the years, so it deceives you! ”

"Okay!" Kuhn smiled bitterly: "It's hard to imagine, I think I'm still a rifle for myself!" ”

"So oil moves?" Qin Chuan couldn't help but talk nonsense.

"Yes, of course!" Colonel Buckhouse couldn't help but get excited: "I think...... Broadly speaking, oil should be available in every inch of land under our feet, but in small quantities we can't detect it, or in some places it's so dry that it can't accumulate in large quantities. Only when the rock formations such as anticline and anticline are abundant and the groundwater is abundant, can they gather together bit by bit by relying on the buoyancy of groundwater, and after millions of years or even longer, they form a large oil field! ”

Qin Chuan couldn't help but nod secretly when he heard this, Buckhouse's idea has been proven in modern times, because scientists found a substance in the oil that was older than the nearby rock formations, which showed that the oil did not belong there, but moved from somewhere else.

Then Professor Buckhouse talked to Qin Chuan with great interest about his other thoughts...... Obviously, Professor Buckhouse hadn't lectured for a long time, and now he was taking advantage of this time to have a good time.

But Qin Chuan didn't mean this, his eyes were fixed on the Timlag Basin on the map...... In his memory, there was an oil field there.

The reason why Qinchuan remembers this oil field is because it is only a little more than 2,000 meters deep in Algeria with an average depth of more than 3,000 meters.

The location of this oil field is only more than 50 kilometers away.

"Professor!" Qin Chuan pretended to be casual and asked, "I wonder why you chose this place as a scouting point?" ”

"There is no why!" Professor Buckhouse replied, "But I always have to pick a place!" ”

"So...... Did you choose at random? ”

"Yes!" Professor Buckhouse replied, "Any questions?" ”

"No, no problem!" Qin Chuan looked around and said, "It's just ...... I believe that this is not a suitable place to build a radar station! ”

As he spoke, Qin Chuan pointed to several protruding hills in the east and said, "You know, our radar station is mainly used to detect enemy planes flying from the east, but if there are mountains in the east...... This means that it will seriously affect the radar's low-altitude detection ability! ”

"But we're not really going to build a radar station, are we?" Professor Buckhouse said: "Our purpose is to find oil! ”

"Please, Professor!" Qin Chuan replied: "We are using the establishment of a radar station as a cover for oil exploration, if the British find out that we have set up a radar station in such an unreasonable position, what do you think they will think?" ”

Although Professor Buckhouse is very knowledgeable, he still lacks common sense in this area.

"Uh-huh, that makes sense!" Professor Buckhouse picked up his binoculars and looked at the high ground to the east, and then called out to one of his assistants, "Hans, go and call Captain Thomas, I have some questions for him!" ”

"Okay, Professor!"

After a while, a German captain rushed over, he and Qin Chuan saluted each other, and then asked Buckhouse: "Professor, what's the problem?" ”

"I want to know ......," Professor Buckhouse asked, pointing to the hills to the east, "do they affect radar low-altitude detection?" ”

"Of course, Professor!"

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Professor Buckhouse had some annoyance in his tone.

Unexpectedly, Thomas gave the same answer as Professor Buckhouse: "We didn't really build radar stations, did we?" It just provides cover! ”

Professor Buckhouse rolled his eyes and said, "Well, our work has been in vain for the past few days!" ”

Then Buckhouse patted Qin Chuan's shoulder again and said, "But fortunately, you found out early...... Otherwise, it's not a few days in vain, you know, if the British get suspicious of us and send bombers to bomb ...... I don't want to try that again! ”

Listening to the meaning of Buckhouse's words, it seems that the detectives have been bombed.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly, the Kan detective team was not only bombed, but also suffered heavy casualties and losses...... It was when they were on a reconnaissance tour in the Libyan Navy when they were bombed by British bombers taking off from Malta.

The reconnaissance team is related to the resources and mineral deposits of the German army, so the British will not give up such an opportunity.

Fortunately, the British had already transferred most of the air power of Malta Island to Port Said, and only a few mosquito bombers were used to carry out the bombing, otherwise the reconnaissance team would not have suffered more than a dozen casualties.

"So......," said Professor Buckhouse, spreading out the map again, "where do we start?" ”

"Why not here?" Qin Chuan pointed to the Timurag Basin and said: "

It's a basin that looks like a place with oil, and it's not far from us. Meantime...... It's not like here, either, with as distinct hills to the east! ”

Buckhouse looked at it and nodded: "Yes, and there is a road near it that connects to Algiers, in case of finding oil, even the time to build the road will be saved!" ”

Belch...... Qin Chuan didn't expect this.

In this way, this oil field in the Timlag Basin is really for the Afrika Korps.