Shale

In any society, the fundamental economic problem is scarcity, trying to satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources available. One primary resource that is scarce and becoming more so is energy. The amount of available energy, as in fueling energy, has decreased over time, due to usage. The major energy sources that are being dwindled are those that are nonrenewable, meaning they cannot be used again. Without a stable supply of energy, a society slows and eventually falls. Each fuel source…

the cliff and gravity pulling the water downward, the ground was eventually loosened and a rapid landslide was triggered. Geological analysis of the La Conchita cliff revealed that the upper portion of the cliff was less dense (made up of siliceous shale and sandstone) and was sliding at a faster rate than the bottom portion of the cliff, which was more dense, made up of mostly mudstone and marine sediment (Goldberg,…

the prompt for Journal #3 in Week 4 highlighted the importance of “exploratory thinking” when considering a topic and developing a thesis. Accordingly, I chose hydraulic fracturing, a controversial process for extracting natural gas and oil from shale rocks. Discussing the reasons behind my choice, I wrote, “I have selected hydraulic fracturing as my persuasive essay topic, because it gives me the opportunity to learn more about the economic, national security, and environmental issues…

In a rural town where population is not large where natural gas is found beneath. The perfect location for the process of fracking. Fracking or Hydraulic fracturing is the process of drilling down into the earth and releasing a high pressure water mix to obtain natural gas. Fracking began as an experiment in 1947 and started commercially in 1950 and since over two million “fracking jobs” have been done since. The process of fracking is very controversial around the world and has even been…

nonrenewable resources. The article, Energy Resources states that the use of these resources "is increasing at an unprecedented rate due to the rapid industrialization of a number of formerly third world countries." At this rate, the oil sand and oil shales will severely be wiped out out in the future, along with the coal mines. Many of the essentials we always use these resources, and would…

The Comparative Study Of Hoof Print Petroglyph At Kansas Rock Art Site 14EW405 and the Ethnographic Ledger Books of the Late 19th Century Introduction The study of the rock art in North America is a vast milieu of differing peoples and times. Some areas, and traditions, are well studied, with the understanding of the people who created the works are more defined in their source. Kansas, with the exception to a few sites, is not one of those areas. With a slow trickle, the expansion of…

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economies, so that energy is used more efficiently and other fuels substitute for oil. At the same time the combination of new technology and prices consistently higher than those of recent decades is opening new potential for new oil supplies from shale and other low-permeability formations (‘tight oil’), deep water and pre-salt oil deposits outside the traditional exporting…

In his book A Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould discusses the progression of man as the paradigm of this dichotomy. The progression of man the most common image associated with evolution; where a linear sequence portrays an ape gradually developing into…

The mantle which is not as hot as the outer core and not as liquid the mantles outer most portion is solid above that is the outermost layer of the earth the crust. Together the crust and the outer most portion of the mantle form the earths outer shale they are referred to as the…