Shale vs Hornfels - What's the difference?
shale | hornfels |
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
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(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
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To take off the shell or coat of.
Any of a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable.
As nouns the difference between shale and hornfels
is that shale is a shell or husk; a cod or pod while hornfels is any of a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable.As a verb shale
is to take off the shell or coat of.shale
English
(wikipedia shale)Noun
(en noun)- the green shales of a bean
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