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Meaning of "shales"

Shale (noun): Fine-grained sedimentary rock that can be split into thin layers, often used in construction and as a source of oil and gas
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  • plural of shale
  • third-person singular simple present indicative form of shale

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Lacustrine shales consist of lamosite and torbanite.
Consequently there was no material addition of market shales.
Shales do not allow water or ion movement.
Rock fragments in this are shales and cherts.
Some of the shales are a bright maroon colour.
Areas between escarpments are underlain by shales.
Natural gas in shales dominantly exists in two states.
Conditions of exploitation of tar shales of the toarcian.
Shales and schist are also present.
Tests on clay samples are equivalent to tests on shales.
A behavioral study of fossiliferous shales was conducted by artificial ageing.
Source rocks are believed to be younger shales.
Effect of shales on coal crusher efficiency.
Go tell the world about shales.
Devonian shales and it is therefore necessary to.

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They may also be found in shales and limestones.
They are interbedded with unfossiliferous sandstones and shales.
Production conditions for oil shales of the toarcian.
It was suitable for processing of wide variety of oil shales.
This is how most shales are formed.
It consists of sandstones and black shales.
Siliceous oil shales are usually dark brown or black shales.
The main obstacle is the impermeability of oil shales.
The shales and siltstones were deposited in an open marine environment.
Determination of alteration coating on metamorphic rocks such as shales.
Many of these black shales are now rich in petroleum sources.
You can smell the gas in the shales.
Deposits of bituminous shales and bituminous limestone also exist.
Some of this rock is exposed as colorful quartzite and shales.
The shales are coming.
Variation in shale durability within the shales is controlled by mineralogy.
Many shales still undiscovered.
These sensitive formations are classified as shales and need to be stabilised.
Clay and shales are the material component of bricks and tiles.
Clays and shales.
Shales that host economic quantities of gas have a number of common properties.
Characteristics of shales processed.
These minerals commonly occur in evaporitic sedimentary deposits such as marine shales.
Zunyite occurs in highly aluminous shales and hydrothermally altered volcanic rocks.
It is a complex formation containing coal seams and is made up of clay and shales.
The processing of bituminous sands and shales is complex and very difficult.
Gas shales in other basins are less thick and require less water to fracture.
It is composed of shales.
Coals and bitumen shales are examples of sedimentary rocks rich in sedimentary organic matter.
This is often found in sedimentary rock formations interbedded with marine shales or limestones.
A band of these shales just seven foot thick produced all the fossils.
These macerals are usually found in relatively small amounts in most oil shales.
Shales share some of the hydrogeological properties of both clays and of crystalline rocks.
The resulting formation shows alternating levels of clayey marlstones and black shales.
Most cordierite forms during regional metamorphism of shales and other argillaceous rocks.

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