shale
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Shale is a fine-grained rock that often contains organic material, and it can also host minerals like pyrite.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
This type of preservation is more commonly associated with famous Cambrian fossil sites such as the Burgess Shale in Canada.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Shale companies have become proficient at drilling fewer but much longer horizontal wells, which allows them to trim costs and still extract more crude.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Shale companies have defied predictions that they would hit the brakes and pushed the national crude output to a record average of 13.6 million barrels of oil a day last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
“This is a disaster. I’m a disaster. I’m probably causing the end of the world, like, right now. But I couldn’t help it. Shale goaded me. And it’s 1999! The best year!”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Earth Science - Middle School
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Earth Science - High School
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Geology - Middle School
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