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What type of rock is clay and shales ​

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Clay is described as; "a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz, metal oxides and organic matter."

Shales is also; " 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."

Both of these are fine-grained and consist of rock & soil and quartz.

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