Which preposition to use with shale
One big boulder lay directly in our path, like an island in the shale of the cave's floor.
Following up the stream-bed to the north-east, passed some shallow pools of salt water; and at 4.45 observed the black coal shales at the bottom of a deep cliff, which formed the left bank of the river.
Men pawed earth and shale with their naked hands.
The colors of the rock, which is shaly in character, are variegated with yellow, gray and brown, and the action of the water in its rapid passage down the sides of the cañon has worn the fragments of shale into countless capricious forms.
And yet he worked, tearing into the rock and shale like an animal; rolling back small boulders, straining at larger ones until the tendons of his arms seemed ready to snap and his veins to burst.
Once, up near the shale, he smelled goat; but he never went above the shale for meat.
He flung himself face downward, shirt outspread, just as the cub made another turn, and when he rose to his feet his face was scratched and he spat half a handful of dirt and shale out of his mouth.
"Oh, that's a village affair tooLittle Shale versus Fairharbour, most of them fisher-lads, all of them sports.
An' he'll travel mostly nights, layin' high up in the rocks an' shale during the day.