shale in English

noun
1
soft, finely stratified sedimentary rock that formed from consolidated mud or clay and can be split easily into fragile slabs.
The soils are developed on weathered materials derived from sandstone, shale , and limestone.

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1. (a) Alum-shale.

2. This shale is similar to the permeable shale in the Van der Lip disaster

3. Shale underlies the coal.

4. The Argillites grade into shale when the fissile layering typical of shale is developed.

5. 2 Shale underlies the coal.

6. Arenaceous Shale Shale is a type of fine-grained sedimentary rock that typically exhibits a laminated structure

7. Gray-black oil shale and black charcoal shale were high quality source rocks in Jurassic system comparatively.

8. We can extract oil from shale.

9. Resembling or containing bitumen: Bituminous shale.

10. View a second image of Arenaceous Shale

11. 1 We can extract oil from shale.

12. The shale beds in between generally deform plastically.

13. Andalusite forms during the regional metamorphism of shale.

14. Keywords: retrogressive landslide, shale-alluvium, displacement, rate, age.

15. Occasionally, shales may also contain appreciable amounts of sands, in which case they may be called sandy shale or Arenaceous shale

16. It can be found by mining Aquamarine Shale

17. If it is a shale truck there will be no coal in it, but there occurs among the shale another inflammable rock called Cannel, which looks very like ordinary shale but is slightly darker and

18. Cystoid holdfast from hard ground of Massie Shale formation

19. 12 It is the density data of the shale.

20. Bricks are often made of a lightweight rock called shale

21. Developing tar sands and coal shale is the equivalent.

22. In situ deposits are dark shale with horizontal bedding.

23. 10 The shale beds in between generally deform plastically.

24. Coal, iron, manganese, gypsum, oil shale and other minerals.

25. General Shale is America's top Brick supplier across the nation.

26. Some shale oils may have higher sulfur or arsenic content.

27. 11 The time of expulsion from this shale is uncertain.

28. 9 Primarily in the Pierre Shale region of South Dakota.

29. Canberra Formation, Calcareous shale is found in the lower parts

30. This revealed that four or five (73) quarries were registered as benefiting from the exemption from shale while producing cut stone and shale for aggregates use.

31. 14 Coal, iron, manganese, gypsum, oil shale and other minerals.

32. 13 In situ deposits are dark shale with horizontal bedding.

33. Argillite A compact rock derived either from mudstone or shale, that has undergone a somewhat higher degree of induration than mudstone or shale but is less clearly laminated than shale and without its fissility, and that lacks the cleavage distinctive of slate.

34. Companies dig down and fracture shale beds to release natural gas.

35. The fossils lie embedded in a matrix of shale and sandstone.

36. The mix of dust and gas passes three pairs of cyclones for dry oil shale where dried fuel is separated and is given to screws of dry oil shale.

37. Dole Bluehearted studies Energy and Environment, Shale Gas Technology, and Environmental Sustainability.

38. 3 The fossils lie embedded in a matrix of shale and sandstone.

39. A classification table of oil shale ash composition is given out.

40. 27.15 * BITUMEN AND ASPHALT , NATURAL ; BITUMINOUS SHALE , ASPHALTIC ROCK AND TAR SANDS

41. In 2003, an oil-shale development program restarted in the United States.

42. Concretions are found in shale, occasionally in sandstone, and even in coal

43. Bituminous shale is an argillaceous shale that contains bitumen, a mixture of hydrocarbons that may be used as fuel, as a paving material, or in a number of other applications

44. material wholly or mainly consisting of shale that is deliberately extracted for commercial exploitation as aggregate, including here shale occurring as by-product of fresh quarrying of other taxed materials; and

45. Aquilegia barnebyi oil shale columbine Aquilegia brevistyla smallflower columbine Aquilegia canadensis red columbine

46. It is found on alluvial soils, generally on shale or basalt soils.

47. Between 1946 and 1952, a marine type of Dictyonema shale served for uranium production in Sillamäe, Estonia, and between 1950 and 1989 Sweden used alum shale for the same purposes.

48. Bring on those sheets of jagged shale, for at least they are firm!

49. Key words: retrogressive landslide, clay shale, residual strength, movement rates, geological age, inclinometer.

50. (ii) Contaminated rock and mine aggregates (excavated bedrock, gravel, rubble, slag and spent shale);