Definition of Shales. Meaning of Shales. Synonyms of Shales

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Definition of Shales

Shale
Shale Shale, n. [AS. scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell.] 1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. ``The green shales of a bean.' --Chapman. 2. [G. shale.] (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.
Shale
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.

Meaning of Shales from wikipedia

- form nonfissile mudstone than shale. On the other hand, black shales often have very pronounced fissility (paper shales) due to binding of hydrocarbon...
- in 1988. Shales also wrote a column for the television news trade publication NewsPro, published by Crain Communications. Thomas William Shales was born...
- classified as marine, lacustrine and terrestrial oil shales. Oil shales differ from oil-bearing shales, shale deposits that contain petroleum (tight oil) that...
- Gas Shales Project had tested a wide range of stimulation methods, but the DOE concluded that stimulation alone could not make the eastern gas shales economic...
- Shalës is a village and a former muni****lity in the Elbasan County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the...
-  342–343. Shales & Miller 2015, p. 288. Shales & Miller 2015, pp. 178–182. Shales & Miller 2015, pp. 183–184. Shales & Miller 2015, pp. 185–186. Shales & Miller...
- Shales is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Brian Shales (born 1985), Canadian pair skater Tom Shales (1944–2024), American writer and...
- Oil shale geology is a branch of geologic sciences which studies the formation and composition of oil shales–fine-grained sedimentary rocks containing...
- Weingrad 1986, p. 358. Shales & Miller 2015, p. 288. Shales & Miller 2015, pp. 178–182. Shales & Miller 2015, pp. 183–184. Shales & Miller 2015, pp. 185–186...
- interest has spread to potential gas shales in the rest of the world. China is estimated to have the world's largest shale gas reserves. A 2013 review by the...