shale

= --->>> Shale <<<--- =   Colors: black, dark gray, green, red

Where Found: bottom of the ocean

Uses: to make bricks and other materials that is fired in a kiln, paint filler, plastics, roofing cements

Formation: compaction

Features: graded bedding, fossils, and concretions

Characteristics: dull

Classes: organic, clastic

Sorted: well

Five Interesting facts: Also called mudstone, made up of laminae, property called fissility,

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