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tasmanite

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tasmanite [′tazĀ·mə‚nīt]
(geology)
An impure coal, transitional between cannel coal and oil shale. Also known as combustible shale; Mersey yellow coal; white coal; yellow coal.


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The basin contains the famous Tasmanite Oil Shale which is qualitatively one of the best petroleum source rocks in the world, and which we know has generated low sulfur, heavy oil seeps in the south of the basin.
 
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