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• The formation consists of cyclothemic sequences of coal, shale, limestone, sandstone, and clay.From the entry cyclothemic
• The shale bed is uphole from the limestone reservoir.From the entry uphole
• Oil shale is different from the shale gas that is extracted through fracking.2014 April 16, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian. From the entry oil shale
• The shale gas boom of the past five years took the US by surprise.2013 January 16, Fiona Harvey, “Peak oil theories 'increasingly groundless', says BP chief”, in the Guardian. From the entry shale gas
• 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
• Another fuel that has been co-fired with solid wastes is oil shale.1999, John G Webster, Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. From the entry co-fire
• The time duration of 18 hours was sufficient to completely pyrolysize the oil shale samples.1982: T. Nejat Veziroğlu, Alternative Energy Sources IV, volume 6: “Hydrocarbon Technology”, page 134 (Ann Arbor Science; →ISBN…. From the entry pyrolysize
• 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
• The Stanley shale is too intricately folded to be of any petrolific importance in the Ouachita Mountains.1930, Arkansas Geological Commission, Arkansas Resources and Development Commission. Division of Geology, Bulletin (volume 3, page 114). From the entry petrolific
• They swore as they parted with the skin of their finger-tips on the keen-edged razory shale.1905, S. R. Crockett, chapter 44, in The Cherry Ribband,, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 338. From the entry razory
• 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
• Shale is fine-grained rock made of silt or wet mud that has been lithified by compaction and cementation.2003, Ann G. Harris et al., Geology of National Parks, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry lithify
• 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
• The geology at the site is mainly sandstone and shale overlaid with boulder clay, and is extremely confused.1955 July, “Storm Damage Repairs in Furness and West Cumberland”, in Railway Magazine, page 470. From the entry faulted
• Above these shales we find a light, soft sandstone, sometimes of conglomeratic or breccioid structure, in moderately thick layers.1916, Johan August Udden, The Thrall Oil Field, volume 2, page 10. From the entry conglomeratic
• The carbonates studied in this paper occur as chimneys or lenses within the shale of Early Pliocene, the Yanshuikeng Formation, exposed at Chiahsien, southwestern Taiwan.2021, Zhao Ruosi et al., “Geochemical characteristics of the Early Pliocene cold seep dolomite at Chiahsien, Taiwan and their implications…. From the entry Chiahsien
• The UK’s underground shale gas reserves may deliver only a fraction of the gas promised by fracking firms and government ministers, according to a study.2019 August 20, Jillian Ambrose, “UK shale gas reserves may be fraction of what is claimed – study”, in The Guardian. From the entry shale gas
• Field reports indicate that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations.1958, Roads and Streets, volume 101, page 131. From the entry hardpack
• France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland.2014 November 9, Stanley Reed, “Britain Plans for Future of Shale Oil and Gas Industry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry Romania
• Stewart visited a “shaleionaire”, one of the local farmers who’ve hit the shale gas lottery, and then came back here for a primer on power-supply management and energy security.2013 June 20, Tom Sutcliffe, “TV review: Horizon - Fracking: the New Energy Rush, BBC2Quick Cuts, BBC4”, in The Independent. From the entry shaleionaire
• Endless bleak, rounded hills composed of shales and ribs of tough ‘greywackes’ make up the Southern Uplands – all of such rocks were originally deposited under marine conditions.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 177. From the entry greywacke
• Heaving of the shale has caused warping and cracking of the concrete floors, block walls, misalignment of doors, mislevelling of furnitures and equipment and, in one case, personal injury.1988, Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, page 335. From the entry mislevel
• This cenozone is about 30 m thick (Subathu Section) and consists of greenish grey, calcareous splintery shales which may change to pale olive green shale facies in other sections.1981, The Palaeobotanist - Volumes 28-29, page 395. From the entry cenozone
• A lean man of fifty-five, with weak eyes and soft speech, he rakes shale on the road and botanizes, ornithologizes, geologizes and muses on the museum.1963, Brooks Atkinson, Tuesdays and Fridays, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 11. From the entry ornithologize
• A similar phenomenon on a smaller scale occurs at Hole-in-the-Wall, where beds of orthoquartzite show large bulbous projections on their undersides which appear to squeeze out the underlying shale.1957, Keith A. W. Crook, “Cross-Stratification and Other Sedimentary Features of the Narrabeen Group”, in Proceedings of the Linnean…. From the entry orthoquartzite
• As observed in the Huangmei district in south-eastern Hupeh, the Rhaetic sandstones and shales with their characteristic purple colour directly overlie the Lower Permian limestone and Silurian shale.1918, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China, University of Birmingham, →OCLC, page 305. From the entry Huangmei
• In other mines with a shale roof, the constant dropping of top- rock serves, especially when it tends to slake, to schistify the floor of the mines.1912, Coal Age - Volume 1, page 518. From the entry schistify
• This region has a temperate continental monsoon climate, with four distinct seasons, and hosts abundant mineral resources, including reserves of coal, shale, granite and other resources used throughout the territory.2022, Qiang Fan et al., “Evolution Analysis of the Coupling Coordination of Microclimate and Landscape Ecological Risk Degree in the…. From the entry Xiahuayuan
• The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.1986, W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al.…. From the entry ephemeral
• This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member.1923, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 748, page 125. From the entry clinker

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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How do you use shale in a sentence?

Shale is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The formation consists of cyclothemic sequences of coal, shale, limestone, sandstone, and clay.”

What is a short sentence with shale?

“The shale bed is uphole from the limestone reservoir.”

What does shale mean?

Shale means a shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.