shale
fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock
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shale
Summary
shale ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (959 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- shale is a type of mudstone[2].
- shale is a type of sedimentary schist[3].
- shale's Commons category is recorded as Shale[4].
- shale's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Shale[5].
- shale's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
- shale's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7].
- shale's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
- shale's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[9].
- shale's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002056[10].
- shale's different from is recorded as slate[11].
- shale's different from is recorded as crystalline schist[12].
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Definition and Type
Recorded subclass of include mudstone[2] and sedimentary schist[3].
Why It Matters
shale ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (959 views/month).[1] shale has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] shale is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]