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Noun Concept
Categories: Shale, Industrial minerals, All Wikipedia articles written in American English
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shale  black shale  shale rock  shales
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A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay WordNet 3.0
English:
sedimentary rock
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A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Wikipedia
Sedimentary rock. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock Wikidata
A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Wiktionary
IS A
sedimentary rock
clastic rock
sedimentary schist
HAS KIND
humic shale
oil shale
Pierre Shale
alum shale
paper shale
+8 relations
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
DIFFERENT FROM
schist
slate
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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shale
Wikipedia
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shale
Wikidata
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shale
Wiktionary
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shale
Wikipedia Redirections
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black shale, Shale (sedimentary rock), shale rock, shales

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