Oil shale Definition
Oil Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock from which oil is extracted 0
From Old English scealu in its base sense of thing that divides or separate 0
Durable Rock, Soft Rock 0
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock 0
Define Oil shale
Oil shale is one of the important type of rocks. If we have to define Oil shale in general, Oil Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock from which oil is extracted. Oil shale comes under . All Sedimentary Rocks have similar properties and formation process. Along with Oil shale Definition, know more about the History of Oil shale, Etymology of Oil shale in next sections.