1 Although nobody told Mr. Callahan until it was too late, the dark-hued shale rocks found in pockets along the Western Slope were oil shale. Often referred to as the rock that burns, oil shale boasts ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale, a sedimentary rock found worldwide. The amount of shale gas available in the UK is acknowledged to be ...

Scientists Discover a Football-Shaped Animal Species in a 500-Million-Year-Old Shale, Stunned by Its Massive Size ...

Iran found shale oil reserves of two billion barrels of light crude in its western Lorestan province in February 2017. Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by ...

In the famous Burgess Shale in Canada ... and their age can only be estimated by radiometric dating of rocks they were found near or within. Discovery of fossils is only the beginning of mining ...

The Canyon is a Book of Revelations in the rock ... Hermit Shale. The Coconino Sandstone layer was deposited not by the sea, but by wind, which blew in sand across the region. Fossils found ...