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- Provides detailed information via analytical data on oil shales
- Offers an explanation of why oil shales are not the right source of oil or the answer to energy production
- Highlights the composition of organic matter in oil shales and sediments in general, showing pictures of different bacteria involved in the break-down of organic matter when buried deep in the ground
- Full colour photoraphs and descriptions of the oil-secreting fascinating alga Botryococcus; showing its ‘hydrocarbon bodies’ in transmission electron microscopy
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Private Consultant, Fossil Fuels, M. Glikson, Palmwoods, Australia
Miryam Glikson-Simpson
About the author
Miryam Glikson, PhD. ANU (Australian National University): Oil Shales-Petrology and Geochemistry. Post Doc. ANU: Environmental effects of Oil Shale Mining and Processing.
Research Fellow ANU: Petroleum and Mineral exploration of Australian Northern Sedimentary Basins. Results published in numerous Scientific Journals and compiled in the best- selling book ‘Organic Matter and Mineralization’ published by Springer.
Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at UQ (University of Queensland) focus on Coal, developing a comprehensive course for Geology and Mining Engineering students. Course generated many Hon. MSc and PhD students.
Recipient of the prestigious ARC (Australian Research Council) grant for the research of Earliest Life on Earth in 3.5 b. year-old rocks in Western Australia and South Africa. First Published in Precambrian Research in 2008 and Later Compiled into a book ‘Earliest Life on Earth’ published by Springer and downloaded over 150 000.
More recently ‘Coal- Window into Past Vegetation and Climate’ published this year is showing to be a popular book.
After some 20 years of teaching and Research at UQ Miryam Glikson retired and settled on a rural property in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, as Private Consultant on Fossil fuels and related problems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Oil Shales
Book Subtitle: A Complete Story
Authors: Miryam Glikson-Simpson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60675-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60674-9Published: 09 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60677-0Published: 10 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60675-6Published: 08 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 124
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geology, Earth Sciences, general, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Geochemistry, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general