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What is the adjective for shaly?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb shale which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shaly
  1. Pertaining to or resembling shale.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Liassic in Mochras consists predominantly of alternating shaly limestones, marly siltstones, and micaceous mudstones.”
      “The limestones are intercalated with thin shaly interlayers.”
      “Internal thickening of units is common and can be very difficult to evaluate, particularly in the shaly units that deform on the large scale in a ductile manner.”
shaley
  1. Pertaining to or resembling shale.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Green Point Formation is the more distal and is dominated by shale and shaley lime mudstones.”
      “To assume, too, that gravelly and shaley soils are always well drained often leads directly contrary to the truth.”
      “As we watched it we suddenly became aware of another rolling along the short rough turf and over the shaley paths.”
shalelike
  1. Resembling shale.
shaled
shaling
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