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Definition of Argillite
1. Noun. A sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages.
Definition of Argillite
1. n. Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.
Definition of Argillite
1. Noun. (geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material ¹
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Definition of Argillite
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Literary usage of Argillite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"1 and 3 1 argillite green patina, about 1 in. in diameter ... View of face of
Trench A, showing argillite specimen (see middle right-hand specimen in Fig. ..."
2. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1894)
"OBSERVATIONS ON THE USE OF argillite BY PREHISTORIC PEOPLE IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY.
By ERNEST VOLK, Trenton, N. 3. [ABSTRACT.] IN my recent explorations of ..."
3. A Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut by Charles Upham Shepard (1837)
"Approaches in character to argillite. Woodbridge. 151 Mica-slate. ... 157 argillite.
North Orange. 158 argillite. Shows a striated cleavage. North Orange. ..."
4. Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts by William Otis Crosby (1880)
"argillite.—argillite of several distinct ages occurs in Massachusetts ; but to the
... A broad belt of argillite occupies the centre of the Nashua Valley, ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"Here, at a distance of from forty to fifty miles from Trenton, are scores of
jasper specimens closely resembling the forms of argillite found there buried ..."
6. Studies in the word-play in Plautus. by University of Pennsylvania, Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn (1897)
"AN ANCIENT argillite QUARRY AND BLADE ... 1893, of a series of nineteen of the
now familiar ancient pits, surrounded by masses of argillite chips, a FIG. ..."
7. Researches upon the antiquity of man in the Delaware valley and the eastern by Henry Chapman Mercer, Edward Drinker Cope, Richard H. Harte (1897)
"AN ANCIENT argillite QUARRY AND BLADE WORKSHOP ON THE DELAWARE RIVER. OF considerable
importance to Archaeology was the discovery on May the 22d, 1893, ..."
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