Bitumen vs Kerogen - What's the difference?
bitumen | kerogen |
Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew’s pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.
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By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
(Canadian English) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil[http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/OilSands/793.asp]
any organic matter present in a sedimentary rock that is insoluble in organic solvents; the precursor of oil and natural gas