Shales is valid Scrabble Word

Is shales a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for SHALES in dictionary:

VERB:

SHALE, to shell, husk, also SHEAL, SHEEL, SHIEL

NOUN:

soft finely stratified sedimentary rock that formed from consolidated mud or clay and can be split easily into fragile plates.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a fissile rock

Words related to SHALES

shale8

Words that contain SHALES

unshales11

How to use SHALES in a sentence

White sandstone and shales began to make their appearance on the banks, and the water in the river had a saline taste.
Soft shales were exposed in the gullies and on the sides of the hills, and were overlaid compact gray sandstones.
These sandstones are at least 200 feet thick, and rest on soft shales of white-brown and green colour.
It is particularly abundant in the coal measures and is incidental to the shales or slates and clays that underlie the coal.
When exposed to the atmosphere, these shales yield a small deposit of alum.
Here again are met the sandstones and shales, besides another and larger fault, and many interesting features of the sandstone and its quarrying may be examined.
In the course of these tests, it was noticed that fresh water has a more energetic disintegrating action on the shales and clay than on salt water.
Sets of rollers may also be used for crushing shales that are only moderately hard, the ground material being sifted as before.
They are abundant in some coal-measures, and are contained, not only in the coal itself, but also in the sandstones and shales.
This exhibits, on a small scale, the chief peculiarity of the coal shales.

The formation of shales will now demand our attention.
Thus we should notice that clays and shales would exhibit a regularity and uniformity of deposition over a wide area.
Now, limestones are not formed in the same way in which we have seen that sandstones and shales are formed.
Oil-shales, or bituminous shales, exist in all parts of the world, and may be regarded as mineral matter largely impregnated by the products of decaying vegetation.

Similar words containing SHALE without suffix s

shale8 shaled10 shaley12 unshale10 unshaled12 unshales11 marshaled15 marshaler14 shalelike16 marshalers15

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