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Argillite

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Noun

1. argillite

a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages

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Argillite

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noun
any argillaceous rock, esp a hardened mudstone

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Argillite

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noun
a hardened mudstone showing no slatelike cleavage

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Argillite

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n.
A metamorphic rock, intermediate between shale and slate, that does not possess true slaty cleavage.

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