Kukersite

Outcrop of Ordovician kukersite oil shale, northern Estonia

Kukersite is a light-brown marine type oil shale of Ordovician age. It is found in the Baltic Oil Shale Basin in Estonia and North-West Russia. It is of the lowest Upper Ordovician formation, formed some 460 million years ago.[1] It was named after the German name of the Kukruse Manor in the north-east of Estonia by the Russian paleobotanist Mikhail Zalessky in 1917.[2][1][3] Some minor kukersite resources occur in sedimentary basins of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Oklahoma in North America and in the Amadeus and Canning basins of Australia.[4]

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  2. ^ Lille, Ü. (2003). "Current knowledge on the origin and structure of Estonian kukersite kerogen" (PDF). Oil Shale. A Scientific-Technical Journal. 20 (3). Estonian Academy Publishers: 253–263. ISSN 0208-189X. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
  3. ^ Kogerman, P. N. (1925). "The present status of the oil-shale industry in Estonia" (PDF). Journal of the Institution of Petroleum Technologists. 11 (50). London: Institute of Petroleum. ISSN 0368-2722. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
  4. ^ Bauert, H. (1992). "Kukersite--An oil shale of Ordovician age: Origin, occurrence, and geochemistry". Abstracts and Programs, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting. ISSN 0016-7592. OSTI 6103080. CONF-921058.