Crossword clues for shale
shale
- Oil-yielding rock
- Fine-grained sedimentary rock
- Slate source
- Possible source of petroleum
- Compressed clays
- Thin-layered rock
- Stratified rock
- Rock that splits easily
- Rock made from layered mud
- Product of mud compaction
- Not exactly hard rock?
- Mud, after centuries
- Hardly hard rock?
- Fuel oil source
- __ oil
- Thin layered rock
- Stratified stone
- Source of kerosene
- Some mudrock
- Rock used in fracking
- Rock that's fracked
- Rock that may yield oil
- Rock that can be heated to produce oil
- Rock source of petroleum
- Rock often containing quartz
- Rock in which fossils can be found
- Rock from which slate is formed
- Rock fracked for gas
- River-delta material
- Product of clay compaction
- Oil-yielding mineral
- Oil-rich mineral
- Oil rock
- Mud, after compaction
- Most common sedimentary rock
- Layered fissile rock
- Kerosene source
- It's formed by clay hardening
- Fracking rock
- Fracked rock
- Frackable rock
- Fossil-yielding sedimentary rock
- Fossil holder
- Flagstone material
- Emergency oil source
- Easily cleaved rock
- Earth's crust, mostly
- Clay-based rock
- Clay product
- Easily split rock
- Oil source
- Laminated rock
- Kind of oil
- Rock that may hold fossils
- Mudstone, e.g
- Synfuel source
- Petroleum source
- Fossil medium
- Brick ingredient
- Fossil source
- Slate, originally
- Fossil-yielding rock
- Oil-producing rock
- Mineral layer involved in fracking
- Something settled long ago?
- Rock used for flagstones
- Something fracked in fracking
- *Sedimentary rock
- Fracking material
- Fracking target
- Fuel-yielding rock
- A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
- Oily stone
- Fissile rock
- Cleavable rock
- Layered rock
- Clayey rock
- Shelf material
- Type of oil
- An oil source
- Fine-grained rock
- A source of oil
- Rock that splits into bits
- Argillaceous rock
- One source of oil
- ___ oil
- Potential oil source
- Oil yielder
- Fragile layered rock
- Clay rock
- Oil-bearing rock
- Introduction of secure, healthy, source of gas
- Kind of rock
- Sedimentary rock
- Rock that's "fracked"
- Type of rock
- Source of oil
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shale \Shale\, v. t. To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or
was shaling off its husk.
--I. Taylor.
Shale \Shale\, n. [AS. scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell.]
A shell or husk; a cod or pod. ``The green shales of a bean.''
--Chapman.-
[G. shale.] (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1747, possibly a specialized use of Middle English schale "shell, husk, pod" (late 14c.), also "fish scale," from Old English scealu (see shell (n.)) in its base sense of "thing that divides or separate," in reference to the way the rock breaks apart in layers. Compare Middle English sheel "to shell, to take off the outer husk" (late 15c.). Geological use also possibly influenced by German Schalstein "laminated limestone," and Schalgebirge "layer of stone in stratified rock."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A shell or husk; a cod or pod. 2 (context geology English) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. vb. To take off the shell or coat of.
WordNet
n. a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
Wikipedia
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that 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. Shale is characterized by breaks along thin laminae or parallel layering or bedding less than one centimeter in thickness, called fissility. Mudstones, on the other hand, are similar in composition but do not show the fissility.
Shale may refer to:
- Shalë, Albania, a municipal unit in Shkodër County, northern Albania
- Shalë (river), a river in northern Albania
- Shalë, the Albanian name for the Sedlare settlement in the municipality of Vučitrn, District of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
- Shalës, municipality in the Elbasan District, central Albania
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Shale, a sedimentary rock
- Oil shale
- Shale (band), a metal band
- Shale, California, former town
- Shale Hills, in California
- Shale Framework (software) - computer software
- Shali, Republic of Tatarstan
- Kerry Shale, a Canadian actor
- Shale, to share and scale - a term widely used in large organisations to promote the sharing and scaling of work
The Shalë is a river in northern Albania. Its source is in the Albanian Alps, near the village Theth, close to the border with Montenegro. The Shalë flows generally south through the municipal units Shalë, Shosh and Temal. It flows into the Koman Reservoir, fed and drained by the river Drin, near the village Telum.
Usage examples of "shale".
Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.
Herbie, a massasauga rattlesnake, dry beaded patience coiled under a ledge of gray shale, the only item in the room, besides the cash register, not for sale.
Jus nodded and led the boy up and away from the streets, looking out across the shale rooves of Keggle Bend.
Brick mortar shaled from his shoes and fell on her head and shoulders as he twisted on the rope and his feet kicked against the wall.
The local committee has asked Shaler to go to Holland and from there to England to purchase as much food as possible, make arrangements for sending it across the frontier and investigate the chances of getting future supplies.
I got up as late as I decently could and went down to the Embassy to find Shaler and Couchman waiting for me.
I got back to the Embassy, from my visit to the Stores, I found Shaler waiting for me with the news that I was expected at a meeting at Mr.
Hoover arrived on Sunday evening, accompanied by Shaler and by three representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Millard Shaler, the American mining engineer, who had just come back from the Congo, came in with his amusing Belgian friend who had been telling us for weeks about the wonderful new car in which he was investing.
After hurried preparation Shaler got away this afternoon with young Couchman by way of Liege.
Late this afternoon we got a telegram from the Consul at Liege, stating that Shaler and Couchman had been arrested in that city because they were carrying private letters to be posted when they got to England.
A telegram has just been received from Liege, saying that Shaler and Couchman have been released and are on their way to Holland.
Thursday morning I got up as late as I decently could and went down to the Embassy to find Shaler and Couchman waiting for me.
When I got back to the Embassy, from my visit to the Stores, I found Shaler waiting for me with the news that I was expected at a meeting at Mr.
Hoover arrived from London this afternoon accompanied by Shaler and by Dr.