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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shale/ʃeɪl/

▶noun soft finely stratified sedimentary rock formed from consolidated mud or clay.

– derivatives
shaly (also shaley) adjective .

– origin C18: prob. from Ger. Schale; rel. to Engl. dial.shale ‘dish’ (see scale2).

'shale' also found in these Oxford entries:

Culm - flysch - mudstone - naphtha - oil shale - paraffin - shale oil - till

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