Another word for shale

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shale

schistous clay, silt rock, sedimentary rock; see rock 1.

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This time, she paid no attention to the shale or placing her feet right.
They are at a depth of about 12 ft., in slaty shale containing Llandeilo fossils and contemporaneous felspathic ash and scoriae.
The scraping of leather against leather, the hollow clatter of stone and shale, the rustle of whatever creature settled behind her.
Far, far, away, beyond the stone and shale, she thought she saw a swatch of green.
They were forced to slow their pace when the trail became covered with slippery shale and the path grew steeper.

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Sedimentary Rock Examples