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 § Shale- Miriam and Kayla §
• HEY KIDS AND/OR ADULTS! • Do you want to learn about the coolest, awesomest, fantastical and UNBELIEVABLE rock ever? Well, you’ve come to the right place I believe!

 Now, listen here. Let me tell you about a pretty lil' lady called shale, and let's not make it all boring and stuff. She is a fine-grained rock. The grain is angular, and shale is a clastic sedimentary rock. Isn't that cool? Sedimentary! It is composed of mud, mixed with flakes of clay minerals, with bits of quartz and calcite in it. It is non-uniform. It's just great! How is Shale created? Well, thats a fantastic question kids! Let me tell you. Shale is formed by the consolidation of mud or clay. Shale tends to be fissile, meaning it tends to split among planar surfaces between the layers of stratified rock. Also, shale comprises an estimated 55% of all sedimentary rocks. Guess what kids! (and/or adults) You just might find some cool little fossils in shale! You are most likely to find animal remains. Cool huh?! It is easy for animals to get trapped in mud, and get compacted together until the mud is combined with other minerals to make shale. It is often found on the bottom of rivers or lakes.

Guess what else?! Shale can be used as a filler in paints, plastics, and roofing cements, and ground shale can be used as a replacement for clay in the manufacture of bricks! That's a pretty useful rock if you ask me! And I know you kids are into technology these days, playing games on your good ol' laptop and watching Youtube, so I got a little somethin' somethin' for ya: media type="youtube" key="Ty4U5NexQvs?fs=1" height="385" width="480" Which concludes: never rundown a big 'ol pile of shale. And oh yeah, and don't try this at home either, kids. It's not very smart. Anyway kids, the point of this video is show how easily shale can break. Shale only has a hardness of 3 on the Moh's hardness scale. This kid here was originally going to run down the shale, but the shale started to break as he ran down it, causing him to tumble all the way down to the bottom!



You don't have to read this, but it's kind of important kids: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale http://www.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/geog140/lectures/crustmaterials.html http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/07/15/getting-to-all-that-shale-oil/ http://www.toxictortlitigationblog.com/tags/marcellus-shale/ http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?cat=49 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_common_uses_of_shale_rock