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Fossil and Local Museum, Messel - Natural history and culture museum. Includes online exhibits about the fossils and formation of the Messel Oil Shale.
UNESCO World Heritage in Germany: Pit at Messel - Eocene fossils, particularly those of early horses, can be found at Grube Messel.

Oil shale extraction - Oil shale extraction refers to the process that converts kerogen, an immature form of hydrocarbon trapped in the oil shale, into a usable hydrocarbons in form of a petroleum-like shale oil—a form of non-conventional oil—and combustible shale gas. It is the process of heating shale ...
Stuart Oil Shale Project - The Stuart Oil Shale Project was an oil shale development project in Australia near Gladstone, Queensland. It was Australia's first major attempt since the 1950s to restart commercial use of oil shale.
Oil shale reserves - Oil shale reserves refer to oil shale resources that are recoverable under current economic constraints. Oil shale deposits range from small non-economic occurrences to large commercially exploitable reserves.
Oil shale - Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock, containing significant amounts of kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds), from which liquid hydrocarbons can be manufactured. The name oil shale is something of a misnomer as the rock is not necessarily a shale and the hydrocarbon in it ...
History of the oil shale industry - Oil shale has been used since ancient times. In 1596, the personal physician of Duke Frederick of Württemburg noted that a mineral oil distilled from oil shale could be used in healing.