Plural of shale

Forms of shale

Shales in a sentence

• As on all large green roofs, the soil is not dirt exactly but a gravel-like growing medium of granulated pumice, shales, clays and other minerals.2007 March 23, Patricia Leigh Brown, “The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition”, in The New York Times
• The samples were black shale, and on the shales were some ancient fossils called graptolites.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 70. From the entry graptolite
• Marlacious shales, limestones, and clays contain enough marl to give them some of its characteristics.1956, Robert William Abbett, American civil engineering practice - Volume 1, page 7-25. From the entry marlacious
• Thus the Pentland Hills form an anticline of Upper Silurian Rocks (shales and grits), over which the Carboniferous Rocks were upfolded.2012, Alex McCallum, Midlothian, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry upfold
• Preliminary examination of interbedded dark shales reveals abundant geisinid ostracodes and plant material, interpreted to represent restricted, low energy, nearshore deposition.1994, Raymond A. Garber, David R. Keller, Field Guide to the Paleozoic Section of the San Andres Mountains. From the entry geisinid

Meaning of shale

1. noun A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.
2. noun A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
3. noun The shale oil and shale gas segment of the oil and gas industry.

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Questions about the plural of shale

What is the plural of shale?

The plural of shale is shales.

Is shale countable?

Shale is a countable and uncountable noun.