This photo shows researchers doing field sampling of a pyrite-rich black shale outcrop in China. The weathering of such sediments, which contain sulfur originally buried from the ocean ...

Marcellus shale is named for the town of Marcellus, NY, which contains a small outcrop of the rock. But the Middle Devonian sedimentary rock spreads far beyond this small town in the Finger Lakes ...

Dan Eberhart is CEO of Canary, LLC. Don’t bet against America’s shale producers. Every oil market analyst should know this by now, but many still can’t resist calling an end to the shale boom.

The team has published their findings in the journal Science Advances. The team explored the Emu Bay Shale, exposed across a sea cliff in South Australia, and found its strata—the layers of ...