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Abstract
Oil shales are fine-grained sedimentary rocks formed in many different depositional environments (terrestrial, lacustrine, marine) containing large quantities of thermally immature organic matter in the forms of kerogen and bitumen. If defined from an economic standpoint, a rock containing a sufficient concentration of oil-prone kerogen to generate economic quantities of synthetic crude oil upon heating to high temperatures (350–600 °C) in the absence of oxygen (pyrolysis) can be considered an oil shale.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Oil Shale |
| ISBN | 978-3-319-39193-9 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-39193-9_181-1 |
| Year Published | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Contributing office(s) | Central Energy Resources Science Center |
| Description | 3 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Encyclopedia of Geochemistry |
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