How To Use Argillite In A Sentence
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Indeed, the art of the argillite is a story of resistance.
Archive 2009-03-01
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In New Jersey, Triassic brownish red, shale, sandstone, and argillite are extensive; these sedimentary rocks are much less resistant to erosion than the metamorphic crystalline rocks that form the core of the adjacent Northeastern Highlands (58).
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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Bear images were carved into blocks of argillite, claystone, and wood or sculpted from clay, with the creative three-dimensional transformations displaying a remarkably naturalistic style.
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It is underlain by quartzite and argillite; the lithologic mosaic and related slope stability and water quality issues are unlike those of Ecoregion 16k.
Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
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Molten diabase and basalt (i.e., “trap rock”) intruded shales, argillites, conglomerates, and reddish sandstones along the scattered sills and dikes of Ecoregion 64b during the Triassic Period.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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The soils of Ecoregion 64a were derived from Triassic sandstone, shale, siltstone, and argillite of the Brunswick, Stockton, Lockatong, Gettysburg, and New Oxford formations; lithology is distinct from the metamorphic rocks of the surrounding portions of the Piedmont.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
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On poorly drained, clayey soils with hardpans that were derived from argillite, native vegetation is a mosaic of red maple, swamp hardwoods, and mixed oaks, including pin oak.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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Ecoregion 84d is lithologically distinct from the reddish shale, sandstone, argillite, and siltstone of the neighboring Triassic Lowlands (64a).
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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Portions are underlain by argillite and quartzite; they have substantially different water quality and fish assemblages than other areas underlain by limestone and dolomite.
Ecoregions of Montana (EPA)
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This one billion year old formation contains calcitic or dolomitic red and green argillites, siltstones and sandstones and represents a subtidal to intertidal setting with occasional subaerial exposure.
Archive 2008-09-01
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Low water levels reveal carved layers of green and red argillite.
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The rocks of the North Island's rugged axial ranges are older, brittle, sedimentary rocks (greywacke and argillite) that broke up into a series of blocks (or ranges) along major fault lines as they were uplifted.
Northland temperate forests
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For years there have been "argillite" replicas of the Haida carvings - made who knows where?
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The rocks of the North Island's rugged axial ranges are older, brittle, sedimentary rocks (greywacke and argillite) that broke up into a series of blocks (or ranges) along major fault lines as they were uplifted.
Northland temperate forests
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Soils from argillite are clayey, poorly drained, and have hardpans in lower horizons.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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The prospect lies within a belt of rocks assigned to the Triassic Amphitheatre Group of the Wrangellia terrane, consisting of basalt flows and minor interflow argillite, limestone, and tuff, commonly with gabbroic sills.
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This one billion year old formation contains calcitic or dolomitic red and green argillites, siltstones and sandstones and represents a subtidal to intertidal setting with occasional subaerial exposure.
Archive 2008-09-01
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The Nelson mineral belt was rich in argillite, a dark stone which made fine tools.
