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Shale is a fine-grained,
clastic sedimentary rock
formed from mud that is a mix of
flakes of clay
minerals (hydrous
aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g., kaolin...
- Oil
shale is an organic-rich fine-grained
sedimentary rock
containing kerogen (a
solid mixture of
organic chemical compounds) from
which liquid hydrocarbons...
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Shale gas is an
unconventional natural gas that is
found trapped within shale formations.
Since the 1990s, a
combination of
horizontal drilling and hydraulic...
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Shale oil is an
unconventional oil
produced from oil
shale rock
fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or
thermal dissolution.
These processes convert...
- The
Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing
deposit exposed in the
Canadian Rockies of
British Columbia, Canada. It is
famous for the
exceptional preservation...
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Christopher Michael Henry Shale (23
August 1954 – 25 June 2011) was a
British businessman and
Conservative politician. He was
chairman of the West Oxfordshire...
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Kerry Shale (born 4 June 1952) is a
Canadian actor,
narrator and writer,
based in London, England. His BBC
Radio 4 comedy-drama The
Kubrick Test was broadcast...
- Oil
shale reserves refers to oil
shale resources that are
economically recoverable under current economic conditions and
technological abilities. Oil shale...
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Shale oil
extraction is an
industrial process for
unconventional oil production. This
process converts kerogen in oil
shale into
shale oil by pyrolysis...
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Barnett Shale is a
geological formation located in the Bend Arch-Fort
Worth Basin. It
consists of
sedimentary rocks dating from the Mississippian...
