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Argillite

A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material

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A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material

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argillannoun	(geology) A clay skin, a kind of cutan.
argillizationnoun	(geology) The formation of argillic clay from feldspars
shalenoun	(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
illitenoun	(mineralogy) A micaceous phyllosilicate clay mineral with aggregates of grey or white monoclinic crystals.
granulitenoun	(geology) A fine-grained metamorphic rock composed chiefly of feldspar, quartz, and garnets.
siltstonenoun	A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.
lutitenoun	(geology, dated) A rock composed of clayey or silty sediment.
alum shalenoun	(geology) alum slate
slatenoun	(countable) A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.
gritstonenoun	A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.
argillic	(geology, soil science) Of or pertaining to clay or clay minerals.
claystonenoun	(geology) Sedimentary rock composed of fine clay particles.
argilnoun	potter's clay.
alum schistnoun	(geology) alum slate
sclatenoun	Obsolete form of slate. [(countable) A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.]
ganisternoun	A hard, fine-grained sandstone, used in manufacturing silica bricks for lining furnaces.
agalitenoun	A fibrous variety of talc.
andesitenoun	(geology) Any of a class of fine-grained intermediate igneous rock, of volcanic origin, containing mostly plagioclase feldspar.
hydrargyllitenoun	(mineralogy) gibbsite
mudrocknoun	(geology) Any of various fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks.