Slate of finished and unfinished slate has increased. It has slate in various colors. Deposits of slate exist throughout the Australian continent, with large reserves quarried in the Adelaide Hills (Willunga and Kanmantoo) and the Mid North (Mintaro and Spalding). Because slate was formed in low heat and pressure, compared to a number of other metamorphic rocks, some fossils can be found in slate; sometimes even microscopic remains of delicate organisms can be found in slate. Slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional
Inanimate whose the English Language" of 1860: "At present, the use of "whose", the possessive of "who", is pretty generally confined to persons, or things personified, and we should scruple to say, 'I passed a house "whose" windows were open.' This is a modern, and indeed by no means yet fully established distinction." Henry Bradley in the "Oxford English Dictionary" asserted "usually replaced by "of which", except where the latter would produce an intolerably clumsy form". Other grammarians began noticing discrepancies between usage and the assertions of those who prescribed against the inanimate "whose". The American Goold Brown, in his "The Grammar