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The struggling line along the bank swayed back and forth, and finally a handful of surviving gorilla-men broke away and leaped down through the shaly gravel to the path below.

The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

The photo of people on a shaly-slaty slope reminds me of similar trilobite expeditions maybe the rocks always look the same.

Fieldwork Friday #5 ReBecca Foster 2009

The soils formed in materials weathered from shale, shaly limestone, and clayey sediments, and tend to be deep, acidic, moderately well-drained, and slowly permeable.

Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA) 2008

The rain had wetted the shaly surface of the incline.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

I immediately recognized the gray fluffy layer on the bottom of the photograph as Upper Kirtland formation, a shaly layer dating from the very end of the Cretaceous period.

Steve Steve and the Fossil-Fossils of De-Na-Zin - The Panda's Thumb 2005

It would be dangerous enough, for both sides were nearly perpendicular and consisted of rough, shaly rock.

Death Stalks The Ruins Adams, Stephen 2005

Lopez and St. Catherine, and the fringing ranges of Mayumba-land, a blue line of heights based upon gently rising banks, ruddy and white, probably of shaly clay.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

However, some of the hills here and mountains are made of a type of shaly (ph) rock, and it's quite easy to make caves in those mountains.

CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2002 2002

A great slab of shaly slate projected so that he had

The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 10, October, 1890 Various

The loose shaly stones gave way with a rush beneath him.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall