Silt vs Shale - What's the difference?
silt | shale |
Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
(geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
To clog or fill with silt.
To become clogged with silt.
To flow through crevices; to percolate.
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
* Chapman
(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.
As nouns the difference between silt and shale
is that silt is while shale is saddle.silt
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See also
* alluvium * varveVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* silt upAnagrams
* ----shale
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(wikipedia shale)Noun
(en noun)- the green shales of a bean
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