Shaly in A Sentence

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    A black and often shaly type called " calp " contains much clay derived from the same land-surface.

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    As the impurities increase in amount the clay rocks pass gradually into argillaceous sands and sandstones, argillaceous limestones and dolomites, shaly coals and clay ironstones.

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    I did come down the steep shaly slope mostly on my bottom not too painful but rather lacking in decorum !

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    The development of foliation in shaly rocks is undoubtedly closely akin to the production of cleavage in slates.

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    The sea grew shallow, the deposits became conglomeratic and shaly, volcanic eruptions began, and the present folds of the Apennines were initiated.

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    The underlying geology is a gray shaly metamorphosed limestone, perhaps turbidite, interbedded with sandstone; sands and gravels fill the valleys.