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Перевод: shale

[существительное]
сланец ; глинистый сланец; сланцеватая глина; аспидный сланец; металлургический сланец

Тезаурус:

1. By 1982 less than a quarter of the area had revegetated; the remainder is bare peat, clays or exposed shale and rock from which the peat cover has been burnt off.
2. They evolved rapidly and spread widely, and with a little experience a glance at an assemblage of graptolites on a shale surface can be used to determine the approximate age of deposition of the rock.
3. For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale, found in the Canadian Rockies, which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms.
4. These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale, laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake.
5. An extraordinary little trilobite looking like an ancient medallion, preserved in shale, with some of its original exoskeleton retained, coloured by iron compounds.
6. The large colony of this net graptolite is preserved in a light-coloured shale.
7. Slit-eyed against the blinding rain, he hurled his weight forward as he powered up a ridge, the rear wheel tearing at shale and mud.
8. Bony fish, Lycoptera middendorfi , Cretaceous This little fish is preserved in a soft, pale grey shale Like many shale specimens it is flattened, but the still-water conditions under which the rock was deposited have permitted complete preservation of a delicate skeleton.
9. The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale, tar sand, coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century.
10. There are a few bivalves which are found in rocks deposited in the same sort of black shale environment that was mentioned above in the discussion of graptolite life habits.
11. Alkaline and moderately rich in minerals, it takes up to 80 years to filter through 295 feet of sand, clay, shale, coal and siltstone.
12. Oil shale was also called "boghead coal", and for a time Scotland supplied ninety per cent of the world's shale oil output.
13. Coming to the top of Pachamama, panting like a dog in the torrid heat and thin air, I trudge over a mass of grey shale, each shattered step clear in the silence.