shale
IPA: ʃˈeɪɫ
noun
- A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- (geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
verb
- To take off the shell or coat of.
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Examples of "shale" in Sentences
- The fossil was found in the shale.
- It is found in the same areas as the shale.
- It is the most common fossil in the Burgess Shale.
- So the quartz was deposited over the Martinsburg shale.
- The section consists of limestone beds and calcareous shales.
- Shale and sandstone can be found in the bottom of the valleys.
- The oil shale delivered to the surface is retorted at the surface.
- The village originated in the oil shale mining boom of the 19th century.
- One of the families is correlative with Lower Carboniferous marine shales.
- The clay loam, the predominant one, is developed from shales and sandstones.