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Synonyms for shale

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sheyl
Phonetic Transcription : ʃeɪl

Définition of shale

Origin :
  • 1747, possibly a specialized use of Middle English schale "shell, husk, pod" (late 14c.), also "fish scale," from Old English scealu (see shell (n.)) in its base sense of "thing that divides or separate," in reference to the way the rock breaks apart in layers. Cf. Middle English sheel "to shell, to take off the outer husk" (late 15c.). Geological use also possibly influenced by German Schalstein "laminated limestone," and Schalgebirge "layer of stone in stratified rock."
  • noun rock
Example sentences :
  • The narrowest and deepest gorge is hundreds of feet deep in the shale.
  • Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home
  • I pushed him on over a sloping peak of shale, and told him to hold his tongue.
  • Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton
  • If the layers were of sand, the rock is sandstone; if of clay, it is shale.
  • Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
  • The inside of the cave is a shale that no one could dig into.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters » by Charles Henry Lerrigo
  • Green and red marl, shale, and shaly limestone with some veins of gypsum.
  • Extract from : « Old Mackinaw » by W. P. Strickland.
  • Sometimes there are layers of shale or clay, which makes a large amount of ash.
  • Extract from : « Checking the Waste » by Mary Huston Gregory
  • He stayed on the dam all the morning, watching the shale and rock and directing the foremen.
  • Extract from : « Still Jim » by Honor Willsie Morrow
  • The abutments were constructed at the street and the excavation was clay and shale.
  • Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
  • At the summit she waited for the horse to clamber up the shale after her.
  • Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine
  • The minerals are lime and sandstone, and extensive beds of coal, and shale.
  • Extract from : « A New Guide for Emigrants to the West » by J. M. Peck

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