Lamosite

Lamosite

Lamosite is an olive-gray brown or dark gray to brownish black lacustrine-type oil shale, in which the chief organic constituent is lamalginite derived from lacustrine planktonic algae. In minor scale it also consists of vitrinite, inertinite, telalginite, and bitumen.Cite paper
last =Dyni | first =John R.
title =Geology and resources of some world oil-shale deposits. Scientific Investigations Report 2005–5294
publisher = U.S. Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological Survey
year = 2006
url = http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5294/pdf/sir5294_508.pdf
format=PDF
accessdate =2008-07-17]

Lamosite deposits are the most abundant and largest oil shale deposits beside of marinite deposits. The largest lacustrine-type oil shale deposits are the Green River Formation in western United States, a number deposits in eastern Queensland, Australia, and the New Brunswick Albert Formation and several other deposits in Canada.

ee also

*Cannel coal
*Kukersite
*Marinite
*Tasmanite
*Torbanite

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