Wondering how to use Shales in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Shales meaning
plural of shale
Using Shales
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of shale
- In the example corpus, shales often appears in combinations such as: oil shales, shales and, shales were.
Context around Shales
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shales
- In this selection, "shales" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, oil, rich, siliceous, siliceous, vary and column stand out and add context to how "shales" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after shales column we and all oil shales would necessarily. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shales" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shales
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Clays are the major constituent of shales and other mudrocks. (10 words)
Sandstones and shales were deposited in North and South Devon beneath tropical seas. (13 words)
Shales may also contain concretions consisting of pyrite, apatite, or various carbonate minerals. (13 words)
The low cost and widespread availability of the limestone, shales, and other naturally occurring materials used in Portland cement make it one of the lowest-cost materials widely used over the last century throughout the world. (36 words)
Oil shales vary considerably in their mineral content, chemical composition, age, type of kerogen, and depositional history and not all oil shales would necessarily be classified as shales in the strict sense. (32 words)
Shales worldwide are, to a considerable extent, simply soil clays that have been formed in the pedosphere and eroded and deposited in the ocean basins, to become lithified at a later date. (32 words)
Example sentences (17)
Geologists can classify oil shales on the basis of their composition as carbonate -rich shales, siliceous shales, or cannel shales.
Oil shales vary considerably in their mineral content, chemical composition, age, type of kerogen, and depositional history and not all oil shales would necessarily be classified as shales in the strict sense.
Bhattacharya said that this finding is promising because it hints at the possibility that certain shales could be a source of the element that doesn’t require new mines.
Mineralisation is commonly associated with hematitic alteration of felspathic medium to coarse grained sandstones and is spatially associated with carbonaceous and graphitic shales.
After Shales’ column we’ve embedded a restored version of the show we found on YouTube, which is of excellent quality.
Pennsylvania is the second-largest producer of natural gas behind Texas due to the massive quantity of natural gas resources under our feet in the Marcellus and Utica shales.
Black shales which form in anoxic conditions contain reduced free carbon along with ferrous iron (Fe 2+ ) and sulfur (S 2− ).
Clays are the major constituent of shales and other mudrocks.
Geology Underpinning Houston's land surface are unconsolidated clays, clay shales, and poorly cemented sands up to several miles deep.
In many places around the world, dark anoxic shales were formed during this interval.
Sandstones and shales were deposited in North and South Devon beneath tropical seas.
Shales and mudrocks contain roughly 95 percent of the organic matter in all sedimentary rocks.
Shales may also contain concretions consisting of pyrite, apatite, or various carbonate minerals.
Shales worldwide are, to a considerable extent, simply soil clays that have been formed in the pedosphere and eroded and deposited in the ocean basins, to become lithified at a later date.
Similar changes may be induced in shales by the burning of coal seams or even by an ordinary furnace.
The low cost and widespread availability of the limestone, shales, and other naturally occurring materials used in Portland cement make it one of the lowest-cost materials widely used over the last century throughout the world.
The most commonly used classification of oil shales, developed between 1987 and 1991 by Adrian C. Hutton, adapts petrographic terms from coal terminology.
Common combinations with shales
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: