Welcome to Anagrammer Crossword Genius! Keep reading below to see if shale is an answer to any crossword puzzle or word game (Scrabble, Words With Friends etc). Scroll down to see all the info we have compiled on shale.
shale
Searching in Crosswords ...
The answer SHALE has 238 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
Searching in Word Games ...
The word SHALE is VALID in some board games. Check SHALE in word games in Scrabble, Words With Friends, see scores, anagrams etc.
Searching in Dictionaries ...
Definitions of shale in various dictionaries:
noun - a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
A fissile rock composed of layers of claylike, fine-grained sediments.
noun - a fissile rock
Word Research / Anagrams and more ...
Keep reading for additional results and analysis below.
| Possible Crossword Clues |
|---|
| Kind of oil |
| Oil source |
| Synfuel source |
| Sedimentary rock |
| Thin layered rock |
| Not exactly hard rock? |
| Stratified rock |
| Mudstone |
| Possible source of petroleum |
| Laminated rock |
| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
|---|
| Crude oil can be extracted from this rock, the most abundant sedimentary rock in the Earth's crust |
| Clay & mica minerals in this sedimentary rock cause it to split into thin layers |
| More than half of sedimentary rock is this type from which oil & natural gas can be obtained |
| A bed of this oil- & fossil-bearing rock from the Cambrian period was famously discovered near Mt. Burgess in 1909 |
| Slate is commonly formed by the metamorphism of this rock |
| It makes up 70% of all of our crust's sedimentary rocks--schist happens when it's metamorphosed |
| Formed by a consolidation of clay, this 5-letter rock makes up around 70% of the sedimentary rock on the Earth's crust |
| We also learned that this 5-letter rock is a major source of the world's natural gas & oil deposits |
| This 5-letter type of rock contains organic matter so it can yield oil as well as natural gas from fracking |
| A type of natural gas is named for this 5-letter rock, one of the most common types of sedimentary rock |
| Shale description |
|---|
| Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Shale is characterized by breaks along thin laminae or parallel layering or bedding less than one centimeter in thickness, called fissility. It is the most common sedimentary rock. |