How To Use Shale In A Sentence

( "NNE"), a portfolio company of Metalmark Capital focused on natural gas opportunities in the Marcellus Shale ( "Marcellus"), announced today that B.J. Carney, formerly Geoscience Coordinator, Marcellus Shale at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), has been named Vice President of Geoscience for NNE. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
The editorial begins with a recapitulation of the basic argument marshaled by the Bush administration regarding his past actions while on the board of directors of Harken Energy.
Pgrolysis mechanism of small - size oil shale was described and its technological flowsheet was introduced.
The first cycle initiated in the early Paleocene and represents a transition from Cretaceous marine turbidites and shales to subaerial fluvial sandstones and conglomerates.
The section consists of calcareous shale with intercalated sparse limestone beds, dolomitic shales, and some dolostone beds.

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I was anxious as I drove Route 40 through the shaley, steep bit of country, where the hills are close like the bellows of an accordion. CHASING the WHITE DOG
In New Jersey, native vegetation is mixed oak forest on well-drained upland sites over sandstone, shale, diabase, and basalt. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone). Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
Certainly the Cambrian record is deeply biased in favour of shelly fossils, as revealed by the exceptionally preserved Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas, where the vast majority of taxa and individuals were non-biomineralizing.
Considerable amount of thin interbedded limestones and shales was deposited in a subtropical and shallow-marine epicontinental sea during the Cincinnatian Epoch.
From exploratory drilling through completion, it takes about a thousand truck trips to frack a shale oil well.
So there's nothing but the shale leading down, then there's some shrubs; and the body was kind of headfirst down the hill, "Bilskie said. KSL / U.S. / National
But we do not know because we are at the early stages of exploring the shale gas potential of the UK. Times, Sunday Times
The rock was mostly poor quality shale and mudstone leaving a smooth soapy floor underfoot and this continued for a few hundred metres without respite.
This may be related to the presence of relatively large, probably late-diagenetic pyrite clusters in the bituminous limestones, whereas smaller framboids and crystals predominate in the black shales.
More ammonium sulphate solution is being recovered in the process of distilling oil shale.
Over millions of years the lake mud became bituminous shale, which was then quarried for fuel. Times, Sunday Times
BRITAIN'S fledgling shale gas industry faces a crucial test this week when planners decide whether fracking in Lancashire can go ahead. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, by 1990 unexploited reserves amounted to 900 billion barrels - not counting the tar shales.
Mineralogically, these oil shales are marls or argillaceous limestones, which may be associated with volcanic tuffs and evaporites. The Democratic Party's email attacking Jerome Corsi (author of the #1 selling anti-Obama book).
The bodies of iron sulfide nodules in the Olentangy Shale are composed of fine-grained pyrite, and their surfaces are frequently covered with tabular crystals of marcasite.
We went to hear Israeli conductor, harpsichordist and concertinist Shalev Ad-El at the Leon de Greif auditorium on the Plaza Che Gevara at the National U. A Warm Day, and a Concert « Unknowing
The association of the cherts with carbonaceous sandstones and lacustrine shales in the Rhynie Cherts Unit indicates sinter deposition interrupted alluvial floodplain sedimentation of mud and sand.
A knot of walkers wanders up the trail to Weeping Rock, where springs emerge from the base of cliffs at the contact point between porous Navajo sandstone and impermeable Kayenta shale.
Jamie's blunt forefinger flipped one off its stem, and traced the spokes of the basidium as he marshaled his next words. Sick Cycle Carousel
Certain ancient strata, known as the Devonian black shale, occupying the Ohio valley and the neighbouring parts of North America to the east and north of that basin, appear to be accumulations which were made beneath an ancient Sargassum sea. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
Oil shale is a precursor of oils, a rock that contains enough organic material – called kerogen – to yield oil and gas when it is cooked. Current Oil Prices and Alternative Fuel Research Not an Indication of World Oil Reserves
The only people who should be unhappy if shale gas takes off in Britain are the big landowners. Times, Sunday Times
Fracking is the process of drilling into the earth and pumping liquid into the rock to fracture it and release shale gas. The Sun
The London area is not considered a target for shale gas exploration. Times, Sunday Times
The oldest is the Gehannam Formation (ca 40-41 million years old) consisting of white marly limestone and gypseous shale and yielding many skeletons of archaic whales (archaeocetes), sirenians (sea cows), shark teeth, turtles, and crocodilians. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
The occurrence of this specimen in nearshore beach deposits is somewhat unusual, as articulated or associated remains of Cretaceous sea turtles are more commonly encountered in lagoonal or offshore marine shale and chalk.
`I'm running into mica schist and amphibolite, some traces of decomposed shale. CORMORANT
The Southern Highland Group, consisting of greywacke, shale, limestone and volcanic rock, forms the top of the Dalradian succession.
Areas such as Cambay basin, Krishna-Godavari basin and Assam-Arakan basin are considered as most prospective areas for shale gas exploration, Srivastava said. Daily News & Analysis
The quarry was a 40 foot rock face of coarsely granular limestone whose layers are interbedded with shale.
The formation is composed of shales, mudstones, sandstones, oil shales and coal beds accumulated in fluvial to lacustrine environments.
The shale beds above and below the coal seams range in depth from twenty to sixty feet and represent a period when the sea advanced and flooded the swamplands in which the forests grew.
These materials (such as diatomite, pumice, expanded clay and shale, etc.) may be used in place of perlite without losing any of the benefits that perlite provides. Perlite
The Anna Shale was then slowly deposited under restricted marine conditions; it is highly carbonaceous and contains vascular plant fragments.
It is a shale-hosted flint, passing northward into marine shale and southward into marine clay ironstone.
Oh, and I read "An Enigmatic New Lambeosaurine Hadrosaur (Reptilia: Dinosauria) from the Upper Shale Member of the Campanian Aguja Formation of Trans-Pecos Texas," a weird beast named Angulomastacator daviesi, known thus far only from its boomerang-shaped maxilla bone. Waking the Witch
As they marshaled the aircraft to its final parking spot, the number three brake became engulfed in flames.
Colorless gypsum and white pickeringite-halotrichite are the most common efflorescences found on shale.
Older Palaeozoic rocks are represented by greenish grey slates from the sides of the Beardmore glacier and by radiolarian cherts; but the most widespread of the sedimentary rocks occurring in vast beds in the mountain faces is that named by Ferrar the Beacon sandstones, which in the far south Shackleton found to be banded with seams of shale and coal amongst which a fossil occurred which has been identified as coniferous wood and suggests that the place of the formation is Lower Carboniferous or perhaps Upper Devonian. Perspective of Antarctica in 1911
France is proposing to ban shale gas exploration over safety fears. Times, Sunday Times
The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
We've recently conducted several pilot studies in the Marcellus and other North American shales that have demonstrated how we can help our clients determine reservoir rock properties, such as brittleness and natural fracture networks, and help predict the geometry of hydraulically induced fractures, both of which are critical to well planning, stimulation and completion. ION Announces Multi-Client Seismic Survey in Marcellus Shale - Yahoo! Finance
Skyway's trails are easy, and its northeastern section provides a dramatic view of the Book Cliffs, deeply eroded shale walls that resemble taupe book spines lined up on a shelf.
The amount of radiation is so small that it is much less than natural radiation due to radon gas or that of radioactive isotopes that occur in clay, shale and brick.
In New Jersey, Triassic brownish red, shale, sandstone, and argillite are extensive; these sedimentary rocks are much less resistant to erosion than the metamorphic crystalline rocks that form the core of the adjacent Northeastern Highlands (58). Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
The emeralds are found in black calcareous shales interbedded with limestones of Cretaceous age.
Mr. Medvedev, who was in New York to meet with Gazprom investors, said China is likely waiting on the results of its domestic shale drilling before committing to a long-term pact. Gazprom Sits Out Shale Race
Geologically, this ecozone is primarily horizontally layered sedimentary rock; limestone, shale, and sandstone.
But, farthermore, I mention the fifth, marshaled at the fifth gate, that of Boreas, by the very tomb of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
Bloomberg News Drilling in shale-gas formations, as here near Montrose, Pa., has contributed to a near-record U.S. supplies of natural gas. Natural Gas Falls on Storage Glut
Shale gas is natural gas that lies trapped inside rock formations. Times, Sunday Times
More than a moving vehicle to carry away natural deposits of rock and shale, the river takes with it whatever it is given.
At the foot of Hance Rapid, the river leaves Marble Canyon; its regular and stately sandstones, shales, limestones, and quartzites tower higher and higher above, while the river quickly incises itself a thousand feet into the black and pegmatite-veined Precambrian schists of the Inner Gorge. President Garfield's "spine, removed during autopsy, was passed around to jurors during the trial of his assassin."
For example, France has a moratorium on shale gas fracking but promotes deep geothermal heat. Times, Sunday Times
Then came the shale gas revolution, rendering much of that capacity unnecessary. Times, Sunday Times
Higher vapour pressures would be generated in sediments of low permeability, such as mudstones, which would account for sills being more commonly found in shale and greywacke.
They left New York City in the late 1960s for a shaley piece of ground in the Catskills and began learning to grow and raise their own food. The Dirty Life
Dolomitic drift and meltwater deposits are characteristic and overlie limestone, calcareous shale, and dolomitic mudstone. Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)
Between the heavy clays and blue mud of the mangrove swamps and the granite and sandstone of the mountain ranges, the undulating rises are mainly composed of red clay, sandstones, shales, and granitic and feldspathic rocks, with extensive deposits of laterite in red clays on the surface. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
The group with which we have to deal is called the carboniferous or coal bearing system, and it includes four classes of rocks, viz.: 1, sandstone; 2, shale or bind; 3, limestone; 4, coal and underclay. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
Kerr-McGee Corp. was once the most important corporate presence in the city. But the oil company never took a plunge into shale and was acquired by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in 2006.
Included among the man's 100-odd possessions were a pair of gold hair ornaments, three copper knives, a shale belt-ring, archery equipment and arrowheads.
Higher vapour pressures would be generated in sediments of low permeability, such as mudstones, which would account for sills being more commonly found in shale and greywacke.
In New Jersey, Cambrian-age limestone is extensive, and often interbedded with other rocks including shale, thereby promoting topographic and soil diversity. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region.
The amount of water it takes to get that oil shale is pretty much all the water we have. Matthew Yglesias » Drill, Baby, Drill
BRITAIN'S shale gas revolution is finally under way after a fracking ban was overturned. The Sun
The lithologic and physiographic mosaic of Ecoregion 67l is distinct from that of the more rugged Northern Glaciated Ridges (67m), the glaciated and lakestudded plateau of Ecoregion 62b, the Northern Glaciated Shale and Slate Valleys (67k), and the NorthernGlaciated Limestone Valleys (67j). Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
(FeCO3), used as a pigment, and also found in the Kirtland shale; and various metamorphic and igneous rocks (such as andesite, schist, gabbro, slate, and olivine), which could have been picked up in the river Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :
Shale gas is natural gas produced from shale rock formations. Times, Sunday Times
One of John's sons, Thomas de Couteshale, was prominent in the next generation, as jurat for most of 1369-96 and three times mayor, but otherwise the family slipped into obscurity.
We've drilled and cased our first Utica Shale well and plan on fracking it in about a month.
Look for traction-robbing problems like rain ruts and loose shale. How to safely tackle steep grades on a quad
This sprawling site bears the marks of geological metamorphosis, when sediments have compacted into layers of shale and now preserve the delicate details of these organisms as fossils.
And persuade them of the potentially game-changing benefits of shale gas. The Sun
He also has about 30 cubic meters of shale blocks, carefully moved from harm's way when the road cutting was enlarged in 1999, under shelter in his back garden.
Fossiliferous, thin marine shales, associated with biochemical precipitates such as glauconite and phosphorite, are common in transgressive systems tracts.
Other jewellery included a shale bracelet, cut in the shape of a twisted metal torc; and a silver earring with a single blue stone.
BRITAIN'S shale gas industry faces a day of reckoning tomorrow when planners decide whether to allow fracking in Lancashire. Times, Sunday Times
Oil shale is a type of rock that has a petroleum precursor called kerogen trapped inside of it. J. Thomas Andrews: Oil Shale to the Rescue?
Activists fear the move will lead to controversial fracking for shale gas. The Sun
The pebbles, like those of the boulder-clay of the northern side of the Moray Frith, are chiefly of the primary rocks and older sandstones, and were probably in the neighborhood, in their present rolled form, long ere the re-formation of the inclosing mass; while the shale and the septaria are, as shown by their fossils, decidedly Liasic. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
However, they were often infringed when two or more different arms were combined (or marshaled) within one shield and two tinctures that should in principle not touch each other necessarily became adjacent.
Hume "doesn't really have the authority, " Shales suggested — unless of course "one believes that every Christian by mandate must proselytize.
Deep ravines cut the northern shoreline off from inland settlements and transportation routes, and steep shale bluffs made it difficult to land goods on the shore.
It lies within the Valley and Ridge physiographic province which is characterized by a predominance of dolomite and limestone interposed with shale and sandstone.
The aistopod family Phlegethontiidae is restudied based on new specimens from Pit 11 of Mazon Creek, Illinois, and the coal shales of Nyrany, Czech Republic, as well as most available specimens from North America.
Then, with a mattock and shovel, we dug into the side of the hill to make a spot for a level platform, which needed to be heavily reinforced because most of the hillside consisted of loose rock and shale.
The defense lawyers can't possibly have marshaled all of the mitigating factors in order to make a presentation already.
Paleoenvironmental interpretation of the overlying interbedded calcareous shales and thin molluscan limestones is beyond the scope of this report.
We scrambled up the mountain and worked all day on the snow-covered slopes exploring the wide, flat terraces of dark shale and reddish-brown mudstone.
The distinguishing feature of the lowermost sequence is the presence of coal or carbonaceous shale within alluvial and lacustrine strata.
It should be where there is the possibility for shale gas exploration. Times, Sunday Times
The sediments are mudstone , shale, carbonaceous mudstone and marl of deep and semi - deep lake facies.
France is proposing to ban shale gas exploration over safety fears. Times, Sunday Times
The overall carbon footprint from such imports is significantly higher than would be the case from domestically produced shale gas. Times, Sunday Times
For example, France has a moratorium on shale gas fracking but promotes deep geothermal heat. Times, Sunday Times
Slate is a more dense and crystalline rock, produced usually by the anamorphism of clay or shale under pressure, and characterized by a fine cleavage which is usually inclined to the sedimentary bedding. The Economic Aspect of Geology
The shale gas revolution had not yet taken hold. Times, Sunday Times
In shale and sandy soil, even in the gravel of hillsides, one finds the narrowly divided, finely cut leaves and the bicolored beardless blossom of the Bird's-foot Violet (_V. pedata_), pale bluish purple on the lower petals, dark purple on one or two upper ones, and with a heart of gold. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
Speshalee to get teh bawl rollin on new bks taht us civiliams hannot seen yet. INTIMIDATION - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
I wish Ehrenberg would undertake a microscopical hunt for infusoria in the underclay and shales; it might reveal something. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
An international team of fossil hunters recovered 150kg of the dirty brown resin from Cambay Shale in Gujarat province, making it one of the largest amber collections on record. Prehistoric creatures discovered in huge Indian amber haul
The overall carbon footprint from such imports is significantly higher than would be the case from domestically produced shale gas. Times, Sunday Times
Shale adjacent to ironstone is ferruginized, strongly foliated and complexly folded where it contains chert layers.
The London area is not considered a target for shale gas exploration. Times, Sunday Times
Thick shale packages, approaching 30 m thick, occur interbedded with the turbidite sandstones.
Comprised of selected blends of clay and shale, paving brick is molded and pressed into shape either by machine or by hand.
The ridge of shaley rock where the shots had come from looked uninviting, though. Comanche Moon
The first cycle initiated in the early Paleocene and represents a transition from Cretaceous marine turbidites and shales to subaerial fluvial sandstones and conglomerates.
The middle member is dominated by gray silty shale grading upwards to bioclastic siltstone interbedded with bioclastic limestone.
As the disasters in the US demonstrate, the point is not just whether groundwater is present in the shale formation, but whether it is present in the overlying formations, through which the drill must pass, or into which the fractures might spread. The UK's lack of fracking regulation is insane | George Monbiot
A metamorphic rock intermediate between shale and slate , that does not possess true slaty cleavage.
Cambrian-age limestone is extensive, and is often interbedded with other rocks including shale, thereby promoting topographic and soil diversity. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
An additional sulphide-facies type was described as consisting of pyritic carbonaceous shale.
The lower Cubagua Formation consists of gray shale with glauconite, abundant pyrite nodules, gray limonite, and some sandy intercalation with fine clastics probably carried out by turbidity currents.
The Triassic rocks are mainly red sandstones, -- often feldspathic, or arkose, with some conglomerates and shales. The Elements of Geology
Underlain in New Jersey by folded and faulted Ordovician Martinsburg Shale; this slaty shale is slightly more erosion resistant than the limestone underlying Ecoregions 67a and 67j. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
The plateau is capped by Pennsylvanian sandstone and shale, and lesser amounts of siltstone, conglomerate, and coal.
This may suggest that in the Blockhouse Shale C. friendsvillensis was part of a deeper water biocoenosis than in the other known occurrences.
Two adjacent geodes from the same piece of shale could be cracked open, and one would be lined with brown calcite, the other with quartz.
The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
But around half of that land will ver see any drilling because it is protected and Scotland currently has a moratorium on shale gas exploration. The Sun
Structurally associated with an anticline, where erosion of broken rock scooped out the linear valley, it is composed mostly of Mississippian to Ordovician-age limestones, dolomites, and shales, with some low, cherty ridges. Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)
These are found rarely in large septarian concretions in the Huron Shale in north-central Ohio near Milan, in Huron County.
This is evidence of a transgression, meaning that as the Bright Angel Shale was being deposited the sea gradually moved landward.
France is proposing to ban shale gas exploration over safety fears. Times, Sunday Times
All but one of the Scottish disc bead necklaces so far analysed have been made using cannel coal or shale for the beads.
His outer body is an amalgam of granite and shale.
But we cannot allow a fracking free-for-all; so here are four conditions to temper this enthusiasm for shale. Times, Sunday Times
Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region.
This specimen looks a bit odd because it, like most specimens from the Wheeler Shale, is missing its ‘free cheeks’, semicircular portions of the head that broke away during molting.
The 284 m section is composed of calcareous shales, argillaceous limestone, and limestone.
a hill near me and striking its roots deep in the shale, is a giant specimen of native tree that bears an apple that has about the clearest, waxiest, most transparent complexion I ever saw. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
The formation attains a maximum thickness of 160 m and contains a variety of lithologies including dolomitic limestones, tuffs, siltstones and shales.
I observed that the septaria and larger masses of shale which the bed contains, bear, on roughly-polished surfaces, in the line of their larger axes, the mysterious groovings and scratchings of this period, -- marks which I have never yet known to fail in their chronological evidence. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Expensive, but the shale boom shows no sign of coming to an end. Times, Sunday Times
He reasoned that the water and spray had scoured away the soft shale, leaving the overhanging ledge of hard limestone.
In this paper, the industrial testing results of proportioning and sintering cement clinker with argillaceous shale instead of clay.
Besides metallic bolts, wooden slot-and-wedge anchors were applied in the U.S.A. mainly in places with soft hanging such as argillaceous and quarzitic shalestone. 5.1 Rigid support in drifts and stopes
This widespread sequence of epicontinental carbonates and calcareous shales lies on the southwestern edge of the Russian Platform and contains most of the facies and ecological associations characteristic of marginal basins.
(Yoho National Park), Burgess Shale fossils occur along the basinal edge of a paleoescarpment within the "thick" Stephen Formation. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
All the actors were marshaled together in the yard, ready to go away.
Shallow, well-drained Inceptisols and Ultisols are common, and have developed from slaty shale and Wisconsinan drift; many boulders occur. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
Nonetheless, I forged steadily forwards and was pleased to see the white and greenish-grey layers of ancient sandstone and shale getting closer.
The Mid-Elevation Sedimentary Mountains ecoregion includes sections of the Teton and Wyoming ranges, and areas in the overthrust belt underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone). Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
They also gave detailed descriptions of associated lithologies, noting that the coralline interval lies some tens of meters below the calcareous shale that contains ‘Paratrachyceras ammonoids’.
Engineers say the law brought in after two small earthquakes were felt in Blackpool following fracking for shale gas are too harsh. The Sun
Our shale revolution remains a distant dream. Times, Sunday Times
Kenny Kemp found that for Andy Mooney, the shale bings of East Lothian were just a short hop from Disney courtesy of a pair of Air Jordans.
Gibling interpreted the assemblage of mudstone, coal and oil shale in the Cenozoic basins of Thailand as the product of deposition in environments where lake levels fluctuated.
In places the shale had flaked away giving the tower a mottled appearance; black nacreous scales littered the base of the walls and gleamed among the grasses. She Closed Her Eyes
Actually there are limitless supplies available at around $35 barrel, the level where it becomes generally ecomomic to covert stocks other than "pumped light oil" into oil products -- those other stocks being the likes of heavy oil, coal, gas, tar sands, shale, etc., which exist in quantities vasty greater than humanity will ever use. Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
There is no need for British enterprise to import shale gas indefinitely because this country has its own abundant resources. Times, Sunday Times
The foreign visitors were marshaled into the presence of the king.
As she put names to the species around us - lovely names, like pickleweed and coyote melon, Mormon tea and mallow - I imagined them frizzling to extinction on the hillside, leaving a last few, spiny xerophytes to subsist on bare shale.
The rolling hills, cuestas, and ridges of the Western Cross Timbers are naturally covered by oak savanna, scrubby oak forest, and prairie and are underlain by interbedded sandstone, shale, and clay. Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
Towering over the town was Turtle Mountain, a massive hulk of limestone and shale layered with veins of coal in its core.
Three galleries occur round the shaft where there are shale beds.
What is clear is that we have a national need to explore shale gas. Times, Sunday Times
This is as lavish as off-Broadway gets, with David Gallo's cubistic set, Mark Dendy's hotblooded choreography and a terrific band led by Stephen Oremus, all marshaled by Barre into a crescendo of debauchery and death. The Two-Party System
`I'm running into mica schist and amphibolite, some traces of decomposed shale. CORMORANT
From the diminutive to the rather large, something for fans of invertebrates, Hurdia victoria, a half-meter long predatory arthropod from the famous Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale of British Columbia. "So lose some sleep and say you tried."
Hume "doesn't really have the authority, " Shales suggested — unless of course "one believes that every Christian by mandate must proselytize.
BRITAIN'S shale gas industry faces a day of reckoning tomorrow when planners decide whether to allow fracking in Lancashire. Times, Sunday Times
According to the BBC's gardening wizards it will "sulk" if it is planted in heavy clay or shale. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Oil-drilling fluids The bean-like vegetable with emulsifying properties is a crucial ingredient in the slurries that drillers use to coax oil and gas from shale formations in a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Farmer Says: Hitch Your Wagons to Some 'Guar'
There is also growing excitement about our own shale reserves. Times, Sunday Times
With there being so little pressure exerted over this particular stretch, the river bed consisted chiefly of hefty, head shaped boulders, with just a smattering of shale between each one.
Shallow, well-drained, Inceptisols and Ultisols are common in Ecoregion 67b in New Jersey, and developed from slaty shale or pre-Wisconsinan drift. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
New discoveries of shale gas, and breakthroughs in the technology of extraction, have pushed down natural gas prices between $4-$6 per thousand cubic feet mcf over the last three years. Future Oil Supplies Can Lower Prices Today
In petroleum systems of coalbed gas and shale-gas, the source rock is both reservoir and often the cap rock, with short migration distance.
This horizon, up to 1.3 m thick, is a black, highly fissile shale.
The top of the undercut is formed at the boundary of a large shale band.
It is, on the contrary, as a vast amount of various and unequivocal evidence demonstrates, incalculably more modern; nay, we find proof of the fact here in that very bed which has been instanced as rendering it doubtful; the clay of which the interpolation is composed is found to contain fragments, not only of the cornstone on which it rests, but also of the Wealden limestone and shales which it underlies. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
More-over it is divided by long traces of waterfall and steep ravines and there are slithery slopes of shale.
But executives and officials in international energy circles have begun to rethink that calculation following major finds in the Arctic and deep offshore, along with rising speculation about the prospects of "shale oil," an unconventional oil source found in rock-like formations. Oil Found Near French Guiana
Here, along the southern border of Virginia, the Blue Ridge overthrust belt forced rocks to the east up and over younger rocks to the west; the area is underlain by the Cambrian Rome Formation that is composed of shale, limestone, siltstone, and dolomite (Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 1993). Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
a hill near me, and striking its roots deep in the shale, is a giant specimen of native tree that bears an apple that has about the clearest, waxiest, most transparent complexion I ever saw. Winter Sunshine
The Helford river estuary has a rocky foreshore of granite and shale extending as reef outcrops into the estuary.
The rocks typically comprise a monotonous sequence of greywackes, reddish-weathering arkosic sandstones, shales and subordinate conglomerates.
The rolling to nearly level plains of the Northern Blackland Prairie ecoregion are underlain by interbedded chalks, marls, limestones, and shales of Cretaceous age. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
Particularly instructive is the effectively continuous high-resolution signal of the interval from the base of the upper coccolith limestone to the calcareous mudstone above the upper oil shale.
The sedimentary lenses are composed of limestone, sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, shale, chert and well-bedded calci-turbidite.
They went single file, stopping once to clear a rockfall, pitching splintered chunks of shale and hornfels into the groan - ing trench to their right. Wizard and Glass
Both areas include extensive abandoned mine workings for coal and, locally, oil-shale.
Deeply buried energy-bearing rocks, shales in recent years have touched off acquisition frenzies as pioneering firms cash in on their discoveries and sell out to, or partner with, larger firms with the cash to extract oil and natural gas. Utica Shale Energizes Deal Frenzy in Ohio
The Joggins Formation, on the coast of Nova Scotia, contains fossilized trees five to six metres in height preserved upright in layers of sandstone and shale, as well as numerous coal seams.
Among these are barite or heavy spar (BaSO4), used as a pigment, which is found in the strata of the Kirtland shale; siderite or brown spar Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :
Hydrogen sulfide often is present in wells drilled in shale or sandstone, or near coal or peat deposits or oil fields.
When the oil shale gets to a suitable temperature, the hydrocarbon material - called kerogen - becomes a vapor. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
She also goes in search of fossil fuels and manages to extract oil from the local shale.
Nodules rich in phosphatic material are found in residual accumulations along disconformities, such as bone beds or lag deposits in marine limestones and shales.

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