Jeremy Boak
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Petroleum geologist, director of the Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, U.S.
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Oil shale, any sedimentary rock containing various amounts of solid organic material that yields petroleum products, along with a variety of solid by-products, when subjected to pyrolysis—a treatment that consists of heating the rock to above 300 °C (about 575 °F) in the absence of oxygen. The…
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