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Shale soils are fine-textured and tend to be acidic and low in nutrients â with largeadditions offertilizer, they are farmed. On mountainsides theyoften support mixed forests.Much of the land overlying shale deposits has been ruinedby strip mining, because shale contains Pennsylvaniaâs rich coalbeds.
For other uses, see Shale (disambiguation) . Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.The ratio of clay to other minerals is variable.Shale is characterized by breaks along thin laminae or parallel layering or bedding less than one centimeter in thickness, called fissility.hales and mudrocks contain roughly 95 percent of the organic matter in all sedimentary rocks. However, this amounts to less than one percent by mass in an average shale. Black shales which form in anoxic conditions contain reduced free carbon along with ferrous iron (Fe 2+) and sulfur (S 2â).