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Oil Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock from which oil is extracted
From Old English scealu in its base sense of thing that divides or separate
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Siltstone can be defined as a fine-grained sedimentary rock which mainly consists of consolidated silt
From English word silt and stone and from Proto-Indo-European root sal and stainaz
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock