Converse of object

• comprise: Here, although exposures are very poor, the Silurian rocks comprise shales, sandstones and limestones with a couple of beds of lava.

• overlie: Calf Close Wood that overlies the shale is a total contrast to the rest of the reserve.

• intervene: The hard ' grit ' sandstones and intervening shales of the Millstone Grit outcrop west of Bradford and to the north of Leeds.

• laminate: The sub-horizontal fissures in the breccia are infilled with laminated shale of identical lithology to the overlying basal bed of the Blue Lias Formation.

Adjective modifier

• bituminous: These beds normally consist of brown bituminous paper shales with occasional beds of beef.

• Silurian: Look for angular black colored hard slate as these rocks can contain Trilobites from the Silurian shales.

• Carboniferous: The headland is a sill, mainly composed of dolerite which was intruded horizontally during the Tertiary into gently dipping lower Carboniferous shales.

• tabular: Fabrics: ' A ' of small to medium tabular shale, gray in color, reasonably well coursed.

• gray: Turning the stone over, the obverse side showed a delicate trace of leaves; shiny black against the gray shale.

• marine: In the dark, marine shales of the Lower Lias are found well preserved examples.

Modifies a noun

• bings: The oil shale bings of West Lothian have also accrued considerable heritage value.

• slab: Hear you can either look for fragments in the scree or try to obtain freshly cut shale slabs.

• mining: The shale mining communities of West Lothian will continue to he heard through Shale Voices.

• band: Some routes may have a bolt in situ below the shale band.

• oil: The red spoil tips were left behind by the shale oil industry.

• bed: They largely follow shale beds along the access of folds within the Dent Fault disturbance zone.

Noun used with modifier

• colliery: A sample of about 30kg of the colliery shale was obtained.

• oil: To date no company has been able to get oil out of oil shale at a profit.

• coal: Basically it involves soil amelioration for slag waste sites, coal shale waste, builders rubble and pulverized fuel ash.

• alum: Finding plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs through working alum shale helps to scotch the suspicion that they are merely late deposits on it.