How to use in-sentence of “shale”:
+ The shale dates to the early Jurassic, about 183–180 million years ago.
+ They consist of repeated thin layers of iron oxides, either magnetite, alternating with bands of iron-poor shale and chert.
+ Cambrian chaetognaths recognized in Burgess Shale fossils.
+ The Burgess Shale site is also part of it, which was a World Heritage site on its own between 1980 and 1984.
+ A small cylindrical lidded box made from shale also belonged to the hoard.
Example sentences of “shale”:
+ Almost any fossil-bearing limestone or shale from inland seas of the late Paleozoic tropics or subtropics is likely to contain some goniatites.
+ Oil extracted from shale or tar sands is also sometimes called synfuel.
+ However, scientists, engineers, and oil producers have understood the significance of mudrocks since the discovery of the Burgess Shale and the relatedness of mudrocks and oil.
+ Fossils from the Burgess Shale in Ontario, Canada are examples of fossils with soft parts.
+ Another species is found in the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan shale of China.
+ Soupy substrates: a medium for the exceptional preservation of Ichthyosaurs of the Posidonia Shale of Germany.
+ The Royal Ontario Museum now has the largest collection of Burgess Shale material in the world with over 150,000 specimens.
+ Its sole species, “Opabinia regalis”, is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia.
+ The specimen was collected from shale over 150 years ago.
+ The northern lower slopes are covered with a calcareous shale also from the Silurian period.
+ Almost any fossil-bearing limestone or shale from inland seas of the late Paleozoic tropics or subtropics is likely to contain some goniatites.
+ Oil extracted from shale or tar sands is also sometimes called synfuel.
