Oil shale has a fine-grained texture, similar to mudstone or siltstone. It is composed of a mixture of organic matter, clay, and mineral grains.
Reinhardt Thiessen has written: 'Oil shales of Kentucky' -- subject(s): Oil-shales
W. L. Finley has written: 'Coking oil shales' -- subject(s): Oil-shales
Shale oil is an oil distilled from shales and used as fuel
Mary Louise Cleave has written: 'Effects of oil shale leachate on phytoplankton productivity' -- subject(s): Effect of salts on Plants, Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects of Oil-shales, Freshwater algae, Freshwater productivity, Oil-shales
John R. Dyni has written: 'Drill cores and crushed samples of oil shale stored in the Anvil Points Mine, Garfield County, Colorado' -- subject(s): Drill cores, Oil-shales 'Review of the geology and shale-oil resources of the tripolitic oil-shale deposits of Sicily, Italy' -- subject(s): Oil-shales, Shale oils 'Fischer assays of oil-shale drill cores and rotary cuttings from the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado' -- subject(s): Borings, Drill cores, Oil-shales
Boyd Guthrie has written: 'Studies of certain properties of oil shale and shale oil' -- subject(s): Oil-shales, Petroleum
Irven A. Jacobson has written: 'Reverse combustion oil-shale retorting' -- subject(s): Combustion, Oil-shales
Fossils are frequently found in shales.
Brian Shales was born on 1985-06-03.
H. W. Hoots has written: 'Oil shale in a producing oil field in California' -- subject(s): Petroleum, Oil-shales, Geology
P. J. Hessel has written: 'Structured Cobol programs to retrieve, edit, and list Eastern Gas Shales Project sample data' -- subject(s): Oil-shales, Computer programs
Paul N. Kogerman has written: 'The oil-shale industry of Estonia' -- subject(s): Petroleum industry and trade, Oil-shales