Formation Green River

Estimates of oil shale deposits by continent are given in Table 1 (2). Characteristics of many of the world s best known oil shales are summarized in Table 2 (3,4). Oil shale deposits in the United States occur over a wide area (Table 3). The most extensive deposits, covering ca 647,000 km (250,000 mi ), are the Devonian-Mississippian shales of the eastern United States (5). The richest U.S. oil shales are in the Green River formation of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Typical mineral and organic analyses for Green River oil shale are given in Table 4. 

Green River Formation, ie, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming 636 445 191 318 223 83... 

Desborough G. A. (1975). Authigenic albite and potassium feldspar in the Green River formation, Colorado and Wyoming. Amer. Mineral, 60 235-239. 

Table 8. Elemental concent rations determined in raw (i.e., feedstock). retorted. and after low-temperature ash (LTA) of oil shale from Green River Formation. Mahogany Zone, (GRFMZ). USA...

Desborough, G. A. 1978. A biogenic-chemical stratified lake model for the origin of oil shale of the Green River Formation An alternative to the playa-lake model. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 89, 961-971. 

Saether, O. M., Runnells, D. D., Ristinen, R. A. Smythe, W. 1981. Fluorine its mineralogical residence in oil shales of the Mahogany Zone of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, USA. Chemical Geology, 31, 169-184. 

Surdam, R. C. Wolfbauer, C. A. 1975. Green River Formation, Wyoming A playa-lake complex. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 86, 336-345. 

Green River Formation of Colorado and in Pleistocene ash beds at Olduvai Gorge Tanzania was formed by reactions of aqueous carbonate species with nepheline in the sediment (Smith and Milton 1966). 

Smith, J. W. Milton, C. 1966. Dawsonite in the Green River Formation of Colorado. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 61, 1029-1042. 

SURDAM (R.C.) and PARKER (R.L.), 1972. Authigenic aluminosilicate minerals in the tuffaceous rock of the Green River Formation, Wyoming. Bull. Geol. Soc. Ame. fL3, 689-700. 

John I. Fester The organic acids that occur in a sodium carbonate-sodium bicarbonate brine are referred to as trona brine in wells drilled in the Green River formation in western Wyoming. Hence the name trona acids. 

From the Kerogen Matrix of the Green River Formation (Ecocene), Science (1968) 160 (3827), 531-533. 

Green River formation thick, which yields 20 gallons... 

Fig. 1. Distribution of oil shale in the Green River formation. (U.S. Geological Survey)...

Work on the production of petroleum-like materials from oil shale in the Green River formation dates back many years. One of the first major efforts was that undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1944. This program involved two 40-ton capacity retorts that operated between 1947 and 1951, with a production of some 920 runs and a total consumption of 37,500 tons of raw shale. This was a batch process and much was learned from this experience. 

The literature on oil shale and shale oils is much richer and goes back several decades. However, because of its size and location, most of the literature deals only with one oil shale formation—the Green River Formation. 

J oil shale more than 10 ft thick Area of Green River Formation... 

Bradley and Fahey (1962) lacustine, Green River Formation, Wyom., U.S.A. analyst J.J. Fahey. 

Bradley, W.F. and Fahey, J.J., 1962. Occurrence of stevensite in the Green River Formation of Wyoming. Am. Mineralogist, 47 996-998. 

Case Studies. The discussion of individual studies in this paper are intended as brief summaries of important results from a variety of ancient and modern lake sediments discussed in other papers (13-16). These studies include two Paleogene lacustrine oil shales—the Green River Formation (Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming) and the Rundle Formation (Queensland, Australia). The locations of these formations are shown in Figure 3, and key characteristics of the deposits are compared in Table I. Also included are results from studies of three modern productive saline lakes (Soap Lake, Washington Great Salt Lake, Utah and Walker Lake, Nevada) and two... 

Soap Lake, Washington Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Great Salt Lake, Utah Walker Lake, Nevada approximate areal extent of Green River Formation, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and approximate areal extent of Rundle Formation, Queensland, Australia. 

Characteristic Green River Formation Rundle Formation... 

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