Shale oil, meanwhile, is liquid crude oil found in the tiny pockets and spaces within shale rock formations. In the past, it was impractical for companies to recover such diffuse resources, ...

University of Wyoming researchers have published a critical review of the relationship among pore architecture, geomechanics ...

Experts say the three-eyed predator was around the size of an index finger and had spiny claws and a circular mouth lined ...

Evidence of this explosion is present throughout the Burgess Shale, leading to its establishment as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1981, NPS said. Yoho National Park is in the Canadian Rockies of ...

The boom in production of oil and natural gas from shale formations became a significant factor after 2008. Greater availability of domestic energy resources benefits the United States by reducing ...

Fracking breaks up rock formations to allow oil and gas extraction ... and other dangerously extreme fossil fuel extraction methods in the Monterey Shale. This geological formation under the San ...