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Oil Shale or Tar Sands

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Locations of major sedimentary rock formations and loose sands containing petroleum in North America

A map of North America highlighting oil shale or tar sands areas shaded in red. The region along the boundary of Utah in the northeast along with Wyoming is shaded. The northern region of Alberta is also shaded.

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Oil Shale or Tar Sands	U.S. Presidential Election by State: Electoral Votes, 2012	Electricity Generation from Solar Power			Areas of Strong Tornado Occurrence				Nuclear Site Capacity																																																		Change in U.S. Summer Temperature from the 1901-1960 Period to the 1986-2016 Period
Oil Shale or Tar Sands	Value	Class	Rank	Billion kilowatt hours (kWh)	Areas of Strong Tornado Occurrence	Areas of Strong Tornado Occurrence	Areas of Strong Tornado Occurrence	Areas of Strong Tornado Occurrence	Virgil C Summer nuclear power plant	River Bend nuclear power plant	Clinton nuclear power plant	Donald C Cook nuclear power plant	Catawba nuclear power plant	Columbia nuclear power plant	Limerick nuclear power plant	Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant	Sequoyah nuclear power plant	LaSalle nuclear power plant	Byron nuclear power plant	Watts Bar nuclear power plant	McGuire nuclear power plant	Alvin W Vogtle nuclear power plant	Braidwood nuclear power plant	Comanche Peak nuclear power plant	Waterford nuclear power plant	Browns Ferry nuclear power plant	Callaway nuclear power plant	Wolf Creek nuclear power plant	Seabrook nuclear power plant	Susquehanna nuclear power plant	South Texas nuclear power plant	Peach Bottom nuclear power plant	Palo Verde nuclear power plant	Grand Gulf nuclear power plant	Prairie Island nuclear power plant	Robert Emmett Ginna nuclear power plant	Point Beach nuclear power plant	Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant	Monticello nuclear power plant	H. B. Robinson nuclear power plant	Cooper nuclear power plant	Turkey Point power station	Bruce nuclear power plant	James A Fitzpatrick nuclear power plant	Surry nuclear power plant	Oconee nuclear power plant	Arkansas Nuclear One nuclear power plant	Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant	Edwin I Hatch nuclear power plant	Joseph M Farley nuclear power plant	Millstone nuclear power plant	Davis Besse nuclear power plant	Dresden nuclear power plant	Quad Cities nuclear power plant	Beaver Valley nuclear power plant	Brunswick nuclear power plant	Shearon Harris nuclear power plant	North Anna nuclear power plant	South Central	Northeast	Southeast	Northeast	West	Central	North Central	Central	Southwest	Upper Delta	Southeast	Northeast	West Central	Upper Plains	East Central	Northeast Prairie	North Central	West Central	East Central	West Southwest	East Central	Central	South Central	Coastal Plain	South Central	Central	Northern Valley	Northwest Prairie	Southeast	Lower Delta	North Central	Northeast	South 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Central	East Central	Central Coastal Plain	Northeast Hills	Northeastern	Southwest	High Plains	North	Eastern Piedmont	North	Northern Piedmont	Great Lakes	Northern Coastal Plain	Bristol Bay	Southern Piedmont	Northwest Gulf	East Central	Southeast	Northern Plateau	West Olympic Coast	North	Cook Inlet	Central	North Central	Champlain Valley	South Interior	Southern	West Central Lower	Black Hills	Northeast	Southern Coastal Plain	South Central	Lower Valley	Yellowstone Drainage	Wind River	Central Lower	North Central	Okanogan Big Bend	Southeast Lower	Northeast	Cheyenne Niobrara Drainage	Northeast Gulf	East Central Lower	Northeast	Central Interior	Tidewater	Pocono Mountains	West Upper	Northern	Western	Kansas Drainage	East Upper	Arkansas Drainage	Everglades and Southwest Coast	East Olympic Cascade Foothills	Panhandle	West	St	Central Basin	Cascade Mountains West	Northern Cascades	Puget Sound Lowlands	Northern Mountains	Rio Grande Drainage	Southwestern Mountains	East Central Mountains	South Central	Big Horn	Lower Susquehanna	Powder, Little Mo and Tongue Drainages	South	Southeast	Eastern Highlands	Lower East Coast	West Coast	Northeastern	North Slope	Hudson Valley	Southeastern	Southwestern	Trans Pecos	Northeastern Plains	Coastal	Belle Fourche Drainage	North Central Prairies	Panhandle	Northwest	Upper Snake River Plains	Western	North Central	East Slope Cascades	Green and Bear Drainage	Northeast Lower	Southern Desert	Central	Lower Southern	Platte Drainage	Central Mountains	Willamette Valley	Coastal Area	Upper Platte	Central	Sacramento Drainage	Southwestern Highlands	North Central Canyons	Southeastern Piedmont	East Central	Lower Platte	Northeast	Northeastern Shore	Northeast	Northeastern Valleys	Northeastern	Northwest Lower	North Central	Northwestern Plateau	Upper Southern	Southwestern Valleys	Central Eastern Shore	Northern	North Coast Drainage	Palouse Blue Mountains	Northern Mountains	Coastal	San Joaquin Drainage	Central Valley	Central Coast Drainage	Northern	High 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