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Scales Shale
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician
Type
Formation
Unit of
Maquoketa Group
Underlies
Fort Atkinson Limestone
Overlies
Trenton Limestone
Location
Region
Illinois, Indiana
Country
United States
The Scales Shale is a geologic formation in Illinois. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.
The ScalesShale is a geologic formation in Illinois. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units...
sandstones at its base into mix of limestones and sandstone and then a shale at its top. In Southern Illinois oil wells are drilled into the Tar Springs...
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Facies-defining cycles are divided into grainy carbonate, muddy carbonate, sandstone, shale, and Stromatolitic–Algal mat Boundstones. Stromatolite reefs are a common...
Missouri by Buehler (1907, p. 231). The formation is composed of Siltstone, Shale, Limestone and Dolomite. The rock of the Davis Formation is a graditional...
Denley Limestone Steuben Limestone Underlies Collingwood Shale, Point Pleasant Formation & ScalesShale Overlies Black River & Plattin Formation Lithology Primary...
Muscatatuck underlies the New Albany Shale throughout of its extent, except in Northern Indiana where it underlies the Antrim Shale. The North Vernon Limestone...
Colchester Coal, Mecca Quarry Shale, Velpen Limestone, and Survant Coal Members, and unnamed units of sandstone, shale, and clay". It preserves fossils...
Basin. The top of the formation is mostly dark-gray to black dolomitic shale. This is occasionally interbedded very fine grained limestone, that is mostly...
Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations. Since the 1990s a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic...
Creek, Colorado. The project consisted of an oil shale mine and pilot-scaleshale oil plant, which used the TOSCO II retorting technology, developed by...
medium in hue. The limestone is fairly clean, with small amounts of clay and shale. It contains a variety of textures, the most noted are micritic, oolitic...
Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. These processes convert...
Shale oil extraction is an industrial process for unconventional oil production. This process converts kerogen in oil shale into shale oil by pyrolysis...
system. The middle Mount Simon is a fine to medium grained sandstone with shale beds in it, which is interpreted to be in a high-energy delta. Finally,...
The history of the oil shale industry started in ancient times. The modern industrial use of oil shale for oil extraction dates to the mid-19th century...
Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas produced from shale, a type of sedimentary rock. Shale gas has become an increasingly important source of natural...
The history of the oil shale industry in the United States goes back to the 1850s; it dates back farther as a major enterprise than the petroleum industry...
The New Albany Shale is an organic-rich geologic formation of Devonian and Mississippian age in the Illinois Basin of the United States. It is a major...
needed] The Buffalo Wallow Group is made up of approximately 70% Shale including fissile shales, claystones, and siltstones. The remaining lithology is made...
The Marcellus Formation or the Marcellus Shale is a Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock found in eastern North America. Named for a distinctive...
Formation Unit of Maquoketa Group Underlies Brainard Shale and Whitewater Formation Overlies ScalesShale Location Region Illinois, Indiana Country United...
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