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The McMurray Formation in the Athabaska oil sands in northern Alberta, consists of "sandstone and shale deposited in a transgressive geological sequence", resulting in the "course grained texture of the basal deposits".
The mountains consist primarily of sedimentary rock, limestone, sandstone and shale, of Jurassic, Cretaceous and Paleogene origin on a Precambrian granitic basement.
Around Bangor one can also see piles of slate residue and shale reminiscent of the area around Bethesda, Wales.
The Bjorne Formation is a formation of sand and shale in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
The mountains in the park are capped by the Mississippian Burgoon Sandstone, which is underlain by the transitional Devonian-Mississippian Rockwell Formation, consisting of crossbedded argillacious sandstone with some shale beds.
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The bedrock in the valleys of the park consists of the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation, consisting of sequences of sandstone, siltstone, and shale.
A fossil collector found a well preserved Campylognathoides hip in a Braunschweig shale quarry in 1986.
The Cleveland Ironstone Formation is a sequence of marine ironstone seams interbedded with shale and siltstone units which collectively form a part of the Lower Jurassic System of rocks underlying Cleveland and North Yorkshire.
C. w. woollgari has been found with Mammites depressus at the top of the lower shale tongue and lowermost overlying Tres Hermanos sandstone member of the Mancos Shale in New Mexico, in a shale bed at the top of the Greenhorn Formation in Colorado, and alone in sandstone and shale in the upper Frontier Formation in Wyoming.
Chris Shale born June 27, 1968 is a former American football player for Bowling Green University and the Washington Redskins.
The type specimen was found in shale outcrops along the Horsefly River near Horsefly, British Columbia and the species named in honor of Robin Webb of British Columbia.
They later separated, and Mrs. Marshall lived at Marshall Hill, a fourteen room mansion the Marshalls built on a red shale hill near the Lehigh River and Blue Mountain in Palmerton, Pennsylvania.
A series of projects is set to make available 37,000 tonnes of shale oil in the central region of Attarat by 2015, 15,000 tonnes in Karak by 2017, and develop thousands of tonnes in potential shale reserves along the Jordanian-Iraqi border.
In May 2008, Continental Brick applied to the Berkeley County Planning Board to open a massive 100 acre quarry, "North Mountain Shale, LLC," in Gerrardstown.
Approximately 180 million years ago, the diabase intruded into older Triassic sedimentary rocks of the Gettysburg Formation, consisting of red sandstone and shale.
The SSSI is predominantly situated on Devonian sandstones and shales, with the area around St Agnes formed from Grampound grit.
IGas has permits for, and plans to drill two shale gas test holes in the Bowland Basin in late 2013; IGas does not have permits to hydraulically fracture the test wells.
Lewis Karrick (1890–1962), an American petroleum refinery engineer, oil shale and coal technologist, and inventor
The process was the work of oil shale technologist Lewis Cass Karrick at the United States Bureau of Mines in the 1920s.
Kettle Point is the site of a rare outcrop of an Upper Devonian shale called the Kettle Point Formation.
Worked in the Kiviõli Chemical Plant as a lab assistant and later as an artist until 1974 when she moved to Kohtla-Järve and started working as an artist in the Kohtla-Järve Oil Shale Science Institute.
Below this is the late Devonian and early Mississippian Huntley Mountain Formation, which is made of relatively soft grayish-red shale and olive-gray sandstone.
The Menefee Shale is a geological stratum underlying the Chaco Wash, which is located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of New Mexico, in what is now Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
Trilobite fossils are relatively common in the region west of Delta (part of the Wheeler Shale of Middle Cambrian age).
According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) in 2011, the 1,750 square mile Monterey Shale Formation contained more than half of the United States’s total estimated technically recoverable shale oil (tight oil contained in shale, as distinct from oil shale) resource, about 15.4 billion barrels.
The type species, Neviusia alabamensis, occurs in several southeastern states, while second extant species, Neviusia cliftonii, is endemic to the Mt Shasta region of California, and the extinct species Neviusia dunthornei is found in shale deposits in the Okanagan Highlands of Washington and British Columbia.
In 1854, oil shale from the River Lett near Hartley, New South Wales was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition and in 1862, oil shale from Murrurundi, New South Wales was exhibited at the London International Exhibition.
The main oil shale research institution in China is the China University of Petroleum.
During 1946–1952, a marine variety of Dictyonema shale was used for uranium production in Sillamäe, Estonia, and during 1950–1989 alum shale was used in Sweden for the same purpose.
Former name of Enefit American Oil (former name: Oil Shale Exploration Company - OSEC)
The semiworks unit achieved a maximum throughput capacity of 290 tons (263 tonnes) of raw oil shale per day.
"For the first time in 20 years, we have an updated assessment of in-place oil shale in the Piceance Basin of Colorado," said US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
In 2012, Ming contributed artwork to "The King of The Shale" single by Ex-Hefner guitarist Jack Hayter on Audio Antihero records.
In a 2010 letter to President Obama, Martin Apple of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents cautioned against a national policy of developing shale gas without a more certain scientific basis for the policy.
Energy Minister Constantin Niță has called for more exploration to determine the size of the shale gas deposits.
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"Fracking" is prohibited by moratorium despite the 30-million-euro contract signed with Chevron for the exploration of shale gas deposits in Novi Pazar.
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European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard noted in 2013 that shale gas could be a "game changer" in helping Europe reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as the US has done, by switching from coal to less carbon-intensive natural gas.
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The Environment minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet announced the creation of a commission charged with evaluating the environmental impact of shale gas production, adding "no authorizations for shale gas exploration will be given, or even considered, before the commission reports".
In addition, thick sequences (accumulations) of Mesozoic-age sedimentary rocks, mostly marine shales and sandstone of Jurassic and Cretaceous age, are locally preserved along the western side of the Peninsular Ranges and throughout the western Transverse Ranges in parts of the Santa Monica Mountains and mountainous Los Padres National Forest region north of Santa Barbara, California.
In 1946–1948, the former oil shale processing plant in Sillamäe was rebuilt by Soviets to extract uranium oxide from the locally mined Dictyonema argillite ore (a type of oil shale).
Similodonta spjeldnaesi is a late Ordovician species found in and described from the Upper Chasmops Shale, Ringerike, Norway.
The United States Bureau of Mines opened a demonstration oil shale mine at Anvils Point, west of Rifle, Colorado, which operated at a small scale.
Open-pit gold mines near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, expose an extensive network of glacially-eroded valleys filled with tillite and shale cut below the Late Paleozoic Pilbara ice sheet.
Shale oil reserves are located in the oil shale at Seefeld in Bächen Valley plate and close to Lake Achen.
It explores the story behind the discovery of an early primate fossil, Darwinius masillae, nicknamed Ida, in a shale quarry in Germany.
The first board members, elected in the 2010 local body elections, are Shale Chambers, Pippa Coom, Jesse Chalmers, Tricia Reade, and Christopher Dempsey (City Vision), Rob Thomas (Independent), and Greg Moyle (Citizens & Ratepayers).
The species was named after the two mountains connected by the Fossil Ridge containing the Burgess Shale locality, Mount Wapta and Mount Field of Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada.