slaty
IPA: sɫˈeɪti
adjective
- Resembling the mineral slate.
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Examples of "slaty" in Sentences
- Also they mostly have a slaty cleavage.
- Most of this is slaty shale and mudstone.
- The back was slaty grey with a dull greenish gloss.
- Slatyford is also known by the slang name of 'Slaty'.
- The dark bill has a slaty base to the lower mandible.
- Colour pale brownish buff, variegated with slaty irrorations.
- It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Slaty Brush finch.
- These seams are conformable with the slaty cleavage or schistosity.
- The primary rocks are Quartzite overlaid with an irregular slaty formation.
- Slaty Fork is the name of the unincorporated town at the base of the mountain.
- Shallow, well-drained Inceptisols and Ultisols are common, and have developed from slaty shale and Wisconsinan drift; many boulders occur.
- No boats are passing upstream towards Devonport dockyard and the sheltered water of the Hamoaze, but a lone heron stands on the slaty foreshore.
- Shallow, well-drained, Inceptisols and Ultisols are common in Ecoregion 67b in New Jersey, and developed from slaty shale or pre-Wisconsinan drift.
- Broad, irregular rolling to hilly valleys north of the Wisconsinan terminal moraine underlain by slaty shale and fine-grained sandstone and covered by Wisconsinan-age glacial drift.
- Underlain in New Jersey by folded and faulted Ordovician Martinsburg Shale; this slaty shale is slightly more erosion resistant than the limestone underlying Ecoregions 67a and 67j.
- At one end of the miles of beach the sea is silvery grey, but along its length it deepens in tone and changes in colour until by the time it reaches the other end it is a deep slaty green.
- Like all the others I had recently examined, it was composed principally of quartz, ironstone and a kind of slaty rock; the low hills in front exhibiting the grey limestone, whilst patches of gum scrub were observable in many places.
- This cleavage is known as slaty cleavage, since it is most perfectly developed in fine-grained, homogeneous rocks, such as slates, which cleave to the thin, smooth-surfaced plates with which we are familiar in the slates used in roofing and for ciphering and blackboards.
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