Excerpt from Oil-Shale: An Historical, Technical, and Economic Study
Foreword, by Oliver H. Shoup; Preface, by H. Foster Bain; Introduction; Acknowledgments; The present status of the petroleum industry in the United States; Causes of increased consumption; Possible new supplies of petroleum; Imports; Increased production; Increased production of gasoline and more efficient utilization of gasoline and fuel-oil; Substitutes for petroleum; Electric power; By-products from coal; Alcohol; Substitute sources of lubricants; Shale-oil; Foreign deposits of oil shales; Scotland; England; Wales and Ireland; Canada; Australia; Occurrences of the shales in New South Wales; New Zealand; Africa; France; Jugo-Slavia; Spain; Sweden; Bulgaria; Germany; Italy; Switzerland; Esthonia; Brazil; Other countries; Oil-shales in the United States; Oil-shales of the Rocky Mountain Region; Oil-shales of Nevada; Oil-shales of California; Oil-shales of Montana; Oil-shales of the Eastern United States; The black Devonian or oil-shales of Kentucky; Economic importance of the black shales of the Eastern States
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