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Bookmark or Share- Shale: Sedimentary Rock - Pictures, Definition & More - Geology.comShale: Shale breaks into thin pieces with sharp edges. It occurs in a wide range of colors that include red, brown, green, gray, and black. It is the most common sedimentary rock and is found in sedimentary basins worldwide. What is Shale?
- Shale | Formation, Composition, Sedimentary | BritannicaShale, any of a group of fine-grained, laminated sedimentary rocks consisting of silt- and clay-sized particles. Shale is the most abundant of the sedimentary rocks, accounting for roughly 70 percent of this rock type in the crust of the Earth.
- Shale geology: characteristics, formation, uses - ZME ScienceShale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock, composed mostly of clay particles and other minerals such as quartz and calcite. It is formed of many thim mineral layers and is typically...
- Shale - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaShale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock formed from mud. The mud is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt -sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. The ratio of clay to other minerals is variable. [1] .
- Shale: Composition, Formation, Uses, Types - Geology InShale is a fine-grained clastic sedimentary rock characterized by its fissility, shale readily cleaves into thin, typically less than 1 centimeter thick, laminae. Shale primarily composed of clay minerals, along with minor constituents like quartz and calcite.
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