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Definition of Alum shale

Alum shale
Alum schist Al"um schist", Alum shale Al"um shale", (Min.) A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

Meaning of Alum shale from wikipedia

- The Alum Shale Formation (also known as alum schist and alum slate) is a formation of black shale of Miaolingian (Middle Cambrian) to Tremadocian (Lower...
- free-living pentastomids. The Cambrian strata consist of alum shales with limestone nodules (the Alum Shale Formation), which are interpreted as the products...
- Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas produced from shale, a type of sedimentary rock. Shale gas has become an increasingly important source of natural...
- of the oldest historic sites for the production of alum from shale and human urine are the Peak alum works in Ravenscar, North Yorkshire. By the 18th century...
- Sweden used alum shale for the same purposes. Oil shale gas has served as a substitute for natural gas, but as of 2009[update], producing oil shale gas as...
- salt that forms spontaneously on certain salty minerals, as alum slate and bituminous shale, and consists mainly of sulfates of iron and aluminium.[citation...
- West Pier is built on oolitic sandstone, whereas the East Pier is on alum shale. A record of several piers in Whitby extend back to Medieval times, with...
- presented about the history of the mine — in the 16th to 19th centuries an alum shale mine that was closed in 1850 but opened for sightseeing in 1914. The historical...
- Ekkodalen and Døndalen. Furongian (late Cambrian period) sediments of the Alum Shale Formation of Bornholm presented by all six superzones; three agnostoid...
- to be confused with the Ordovician Alum Shale Lagerstätte of Sweden Not to be confused with the Ordovician Alum Shale Lagerstätte of Sweden Whitby Mudstone...