shale

Summary

shale ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,121 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• shale is a type of clastic rock^[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 different from is recorded as slate^[10].
• shale's different from is recorded as crystalline schist^[11].
• shale's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002056^[12].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include clastic rock^[2] and sedimentary schist^[3].

Why It Matters

shale ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,121 views/month).^[1] shale has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[13] shale is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[14]