Color Names

Deep Shale

Dusty, layered rock, the kind that crumbles under a pickaxe.

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Deep Shale is a cool grey.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

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Deep Shale

Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g., kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Shale is characterized by its tendency to split into thin layers (laminae) less than one centimeter in thickness. This property is called fissility. Shale is the most common sedimentary rock.

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deep

Adjective

  1. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.

Adverb

  1. Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
  2. In a profound, not superficial, manner.
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shale

Noun

  1. A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.
  2. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

Verb

  1. To take off the shell or coat of.
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