Torbanite

Torbanite

Torbanite is a variety of fine-grained coal, sometimes known as boghead coal, named after Torbane Hill in Scotland.Citation | last =Dyni | first =John R. | title =Geology and resources of some world oil-shale deposits (Presented at Symposium on Oil Shale in Tallinn, Estonia, November 18-21, 2002) | journal =Oil Shale. A Scientific-Technical Journal | publisher = Estonian Academy Publishers | volume =20 | issue =3 | pages =193-252 | year =2003 | url=http://www.kirj.ee/oilshale/2_dyni_2003_3.pdf | format=PDF | id = ISSN 0208-189X | accessdate =2007-06-17] Other major deposits of torbanite ar found in Pennsylvania and Illinois, USA, in the Transvaal of South Africa and in the Sydney Basin, Australia.Teh Fu Yen and George V. Chilingarian (1976) "Oil Shale", Amsterdam, Elsevier] Torbanite usually occurs as lenticular masses, often associated with deposits of coal, and is classified also as lacustrine type oil shale. [Hutton, A.C. 1987. Petrographic classification of oil shales // Intern. J. Coal Geol. 1987. Vol. 8. P. 203–231.]

Paraffin oil can be distilled from some forms of torbanite, a process discovered and patented by James Young in 1851.

Torbanite typically comprises 88 percent carbon and 11 percent hydrogen.

ee also

*Cannel coal
*Kukersite
*Lamosite
*Marinite
*Tasmanite

References

External links

* [http://www.answers.com/topic/torbanite Torbanite] at "answers.com"


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