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    Kukersite is a light-brown marine type oil shale of Ordovician age. It is found in the Baltic Oil Shale Basin in Estonia and North-West Russia. It is...
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    is not used industrially. The other is kukersite, which has been mined for more than a hundred years. Kukersite deposits in Estonia account for 1% of global...
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    rock-samples threatened with disposal or destruction – including oil shales Kukersite – Light-brown marine type oil shale of Ordovician age – a well-analyzed...
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    Outcrop of Ordovician oil shale (kukersite), northern Estonia...
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    southern Ohio Outcrop of Ordovician kukersite oil shale, northern Estonia Bryozoan fossils in Ordovician kukersite oil shale, northern Estonia Brachiopods...
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    (creosol) in beech-wood tar. Orcinol is also found in shale oil produced from Kukersite oil shale. It is the main water-soluble phenol in the oil, and has been...
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    Estonian geology. In the mid-19th century, he researched Estonian oil shale, kukersite, and named it after Kuckers. Main papers of Friedrich Schmidt research...
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  • Outcrop of Ordovician kukersite oil shale, northern Estonia...
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    Estonia Western Estonia Eastern Estonia Natural resources: oil shale (kukersite), peat, rare earth elements, phosphorite, clay, limestone, sand, dolomite...
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    Bryozoan fossils in an Upper Ordovician oil shale (kukersite), northern Estonia....
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