TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the International Committee for Coal Petrology (ICPCP) nomeclature system for describing the organic matter in oil shales provided the terminology for organic matter derived from algal precursors.
TL;DR: In this article, total organic matter, extractable organic matter (bitumen), and pyrolysates released on low-temperature sealed-tube pyrolysis of kerogen were analysed chemically and isotopically.
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of vacuum pyrolysis for the production of oil from Carboniferous-age oil shales from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia was investigated, and the results showed that pyrolyses can yield a high yield of oil and a low yield of gas.
TL;DR: In Eastern Canada, following the Acadian Orogeny, two lithologically and chronologically distinct sequences of oil shale were deposited in the Late Devonian/Carboniferous Maritimes Basin this article.
TL;DR: In this paper, X-ray diffraction shows that the sediments consist mainly of quartz, feldspar, carbonates and a range of clay minerals, together with minor proportions of sulphides, evaporites and zeolites.