Sentence examples for shale strata from inspiring English sources

Composed of horizontal shale strata, the mountain was probably named for Colin Robson (1793 1842), an official of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Gas in shale strata is found to be present as a free gas and adsorbed gas.

Liquid-rich hydrocarbons in shale strata include two kinds of resources, i.e. tight oil and shale oil.

The sand and shale strata are so distinct that they can be significantly correlated across many wells and seismic sections.

China has planned to produce very gas from shale strata; more than 40% is expected by 2040.

Currently, potential tight oil areas are mainly distributed in 137 sets of shale strata in 84 basins, especially South America, North America, Russia, and North Africa.

The Bradford Sands, a series of thick sandstone deposits, form the base of the Lock Haven Formation, and are underlain by the Brallier Formation (locally known as the Elk Formation) and the Trimmers Rock Formation, which are comprised of interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and shale stratum of Upper Devonian age (Carter and Harper 2002).

The even-numbered layers allowed no seepage and represented a stable shale layer between the sand strata (Fig. 2).

The potential new volumes of trapped gas within shale or other mineral strata coming to the marketplace offer a tremendous opportunity if scientists can invent new, cost effective ways to convert this methane to higher value chemicals.

Instead, they are distributed among tight sandstone, shale, and other geologic strata.

However, the Karoo Supergroup strata, mainly shales and sandstones accumulated in a retroarc foreland basin termed "the Karoo basin", attaining a maximum thickness of 12,000 m.