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Things shale often describes ("shale ________")
- floras
- reserves
- deposits
- seams
- series
- cycles
- zone
- band
- basin
- beds
- land
- fields
- deposit
- mine
- rhythms
- works
- processing
- retorts
- development
- production
- bed
- bedding
- companies
- boundary
- contacts
- resources
- couplets
- basins
- complex
- ratio
- contact
- plain
- chert
- strata
- succession
- clay
- unit
- program
- sections
- limestone
- mines
- section
- lands
- plants
- dust
- bitumen
- mixture
- mining
- ash
- group
- kerogen
- oils
- couplet
- distillation
- interbeds
- sequence
- samples
- ratios
- facies
- rock
- district
- slopes
- regions
- units
- bands
- out
- industries
- formation
- rocks
- interval
- alternations
- map
- sandstone
- survey
- partings
- exploitation
- plant
- member
- layers
- rhythm
- sequences
- pits
- miners
- area
- oil
- working
- technology
- gas
- extraction
- deposition
- industry
- formations
- disposal
- interface
- region
- reserve
- pit
How shale often is described ("________ shale")
- raw
- upper
- tuffaceous
- light
- broken
- burnt
- argillaceous
- red
- organic
- grained
- spent
- fractured
- colored
- stratified
- coloured
- loose
- nodular
- bedded
- average
- hard
- gypsiferous
- arenaceous
- lower
- grade
- aluminous
- variegated
- baked
- compact
- dolomitic
- carboniferous
- massive
- pyritic
- overlying
- minor
- black
- brittle
- yellow
- alum
- clayey
- impermeable
- reddish
- gray
- yellowish
- ferruginous
- laminated
- bearing
- marine
- thick
- bituminous
- brown
- green
- thin
- indurated
- greenish
- brownish
- marly
- fissile
- crushed
- sandy
- micaceous
- calcareous
- softer
- impervious
- purple
- retorted
- interbedded
- oil
- fine
- siliceous
- fossiliferous
- phosphatic
- typical
- coaly
- basal
- middle
- slaty
- weak
- rich
- cretaceous
- devonian
- carbonaceous
- blue
- dark
- grey
- soft
- friable
- weathered
- limy
- bluish
- olive
