shale

fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock
Thing general Q751300
shale
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shale

Summary

shale ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (968 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • shale's image is recorded as ShaleUSGOV.jpg[2].
  • shale's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85121075[3].
  • shale's subclass of is recorded as clastic rock[4].
  • shale's subclass of is recorded as sedimentary schist[5].
  • shale's Commons category is recorded as Shale[6].
  • shale's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c1lm[7].
  • shale's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Shale[8].
  • shale's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300011281[9].
  • shale's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 812589[10].
  • shale's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • shale's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • shale's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • shale's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[14].
  • shale's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/shale[15].
  • shale's different from is recorded as slate[16].
  • shale's different from is recorded as crystalline schist[17].
  • shale's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00070873n[18].
  • shale's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002056[19].
  • shale's Quora topic ID is recorded as Shale-1[20].
  • shale's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as shales[21].
  • shale's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 00002056[22].
  • shale's Mindat mineral ID is recorded as 49444[23].
  • shale's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/9820[24].
  • shale's Kivid.info ID is recorded as 1399[25].
  • shale's Golden ID is recorded as Shale-W33AX[26].

Why It Matters

shale ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (968 views/month).[1] shale has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] shale is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . golden.com. Retrieved . golden.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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