Oil Shales

Chapter 1. Methods of Study.- Chapter 2. High Oil Yielding Oil Shales.- Chapter 3. The Middle Cambrian Camooweal Oil Shale.- Chapter 4. Cretaceous Oil Shales of the Eromanga Basin.- Chapter 5. Tertiary Oil Shales in Australia.- Chapter 6. Discussion and Conclusion in View of the Methods Applied.- Chapter 7. Mining and Processing Oil Shales and their Consequences.- Appendix.

Miryam Glikson, PhD. ANU (Australian National University): Oil Shales-Petrology and Geochemistry. Post Doc. ANU: Environmental effects of Oil Shale Mining and Processing.

Research Fellow ANU: Petroleum and Mineral exploration of Australian Northern Sedimentary Basins. Results published in numerous Scientific Journals and compiled in the best- selling book 'Organic Matter and Mineralization' published by Springer.

Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at UQ (University of Queensland) focus on Coal, developing a comprehensive course for Geology and Mining Engineering students. Course generated many Hon. MSc and PhD students.

Recipient of the prestigious ARC (Australian Research Council) grant for the research of Earliest Life on Earth in 3.5 b. year-old rocks in Western Australia and South Africa. First Published in Precambrian Research in 2008 and Later Compiled into a book 'Earliest Life on Earth' published by Springer and downloaded over 150 000.

More recently 'Coal- Window into Past Vegetation and Climate' published this year is showing to be a popular book.

After some 20 years of teaching and Research at UQ Miryam Glikson retired and settled on a rural property in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, as Private Consultant on Fossil fuels and related problems.