Rock
Shale
A fine-grained clastic sedimentary rock made mostly of clay-sized particles, deposited where water was still enough for the finest material to settle.
Classification
- rock class
- sedimentary
In the knowledge graph
- Shale hosts Konrad
- Shale hosts Las Vigas
- Shale hosts Lubin
- Shale hosts Maleevskoe
- Shale hosts Neves-Corvo
- Shale hosts Novo-Berezovskoe
- Shale hosts Red Dog
- Shale hosts Ridder-Sokolnoe
- Shale formed by Lithification
- Shale can transform into Siltstone
- Shale can transform into Slate
- Shale hosts Witvlei
Record last updated 2026-09-06. Corrections follow the published corrections policy; superseded claims are retained, never silently edited.