Stratigraphy and organic petrography of Mississippian and Devonian oil shale at the Means Project, East-Central Kentucky
The Means Oil Shale Project is under consideration for financial assistance by the US Synthetic Fuels Corporation. The project site is located in southern Montgomery County, about 45 miles east of Lexington, Kentucky. In the site area the Devonian Ohio Shale and the Mississippian Sunbury Shale are under study; these oil shales were deposited in the Appalachian Basin. The objective of the Means Project is to mine, using open pit methods, an ore zone which includes the Sunbury and upper Cleveland and which excludes the Bedford interburden. The thick lower grade oil shale below this ore zone renders the higher grade shale at the base of the Huron commercially unattractive. The oil shale at Means has been classified as a marinite, an oil shale containing abundant alginite of marine origin. Lamalginite is the dominant liptinite and comprises small, unicellular alginite with weak to moderate fluorescence at low rank and a distinctive lamellar form. Telalginite, derived from large colonial or thick-walled, unicellular algae, is common in several stratigraphic intervals.
- Research Organization:
- Breckinridge Minerals, Inc., Mt. Sterling, KY
- OSTI ID:
- 6205472
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8411130-
- Journal Information:
- Proceedings, Eastern Oil Shale Symposium; (United States), Journal Name: Proceedings, Eastern Oil Shale Symposium; (United States) Vol. IMMR84/124
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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