quartzose shale

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quartzose shale [′kwȯrt‚sōs ′shāl]

(petrology)

A green or gray shale composed predominantly of rounded quartz grains of silt size, commonly associated with highly mature sandstones (orthoquartzites), representing the reworking of residual clays as transgressive seas encroached on old land areas.

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