And deep below, the coarse grits go, Wi' purple slates and green.
There is also amongst the Palaeozoic group an interesting series of red slates containing Radiolaria.
Overlying these amongst the Palaeozoic rocks, we meet in many parts of Japan withslates and other rocks possibly of Cambrian or Silurian age.
Thus, the slates of Menat and those of Rochesauve appear to me to furnish a Flora very similar to those of OEningen and Parschlug.
With regard to the plants of the bituminous slates of the Mansfeld district, they are so few in number, and appear to have been deposited in conditions so different, that we can with difficulty compare them with the two other Floras.
In Bohemia, the tripoli slates of Bilin and Comothau, which contain a pretty considerable number of plants described by M.
For it may be asked, whether the bituminous and copper slates of the county of Mansfield, classed by all geologists with the zechstein, and the sandstone of Russia, placed by M.
Sternberg, and mentioned by him as found in the beds between the jurassic slates and the chalk in Transylvania.
Finally, is there greater reason for classifying the slates of Lodeve, considered by M.
For these reasons shales and slates are the only rocks which are likely to be fused by relief from load through the formation of anticlinal arches within the earth’s zone of flow.
The Llanberis slates had been eagerly searched for fossils for many years without result, but that the search was not exhaustive was proved by the discovery of trilobites in them some years ago.
As the lithological classification is essentially British, it will be as well to retain the Tremadoc Slates in the Cambrian system.
On the Morte Slatesand Associated Beds in North Devon and West Somerset," Quart.
The Lingula Flags are represented by the Malvern Shales of the Malvern area and the Stockingford Shales of Nuneaton, whilst the Tremadoc Slates have as their equivalents the Shineton Shales.
Footnote 66: In giving this description the red (Glyn) slates of North Wales are treated as belonging to the Caerfai series, though this correlation depends on lithological characters only at present.
The slates should not have broken--and they would not have broken--if all the other miracles told in the bible are true.
In an instant he had plucked out his revolver, smashed the window with its butt, and the slates with a bullet not a yard from the protruding head.
His magnanimity took me by the throat; without a word I led him to the one window looking inward upon sloping slates and level leads.
I ventured further, till I could overlook the lawns: they lay like clean slates in the starlight: there was no sign of living thing nearer than the house, which was still lit up, but quiet enough now.
Two slateswere fastened together, with a pencil between them, and on opening the slates certain writing was found.
The slates which alternated with the limestone were so very brittle that they everywhere formed piles of angular fragments, which filled all the hollows, and formed a sloping talus against every precipice.
It was very hot; not a breath of wind came in at the open doors and windows--nothing but the blazing sunlight that lay in hot patches on the floor, and slowly baked blackboards and slates and desks.
Even the slates on a modern addition to the homestead are each bordered with yellow lichen--perhaps because they adjoin thatch, forslates do not seem generally to encourage the growth of lichen.
Good slates are quarried at Kilmoganny, in the Silurian inlier on the Slievenaman range.
They consist of a lower series of greenish slates and a higher, more micaceous and schistose series with grits; bands of limestone occur in these rocks near Bunchory.
They wrote with pencils of diamond upon slates of gold, and learned by heart just as well as they read: one could see directly that they were Princes.
He had to borrow two slates before he had written all he had to say.
Jane was beginning to read French books for her amusement in leisure hours; and Agnes was often found to have covered two slates with sums in Practice, just for pleasure, while he could not master the very moderate lessons Miss Harold set him.
At his back rose the town of Portlossie, high above the harbour and the Seaton, with its houses of grey and brown stone, roofed with blue slates and red tiles.
It contains a number of peculiar Graptolites, by which it can be identified without question with the Arenig group of Wales and the corresponding Skiddaw Slates of the North of England.
The fine-grained lithographic slates of Solenhofen are especially famous as a depot for the remains of these Crustaceans, and a characteristic species from this locality (Eryon arctiformis, fig.
The Middle Devonian or Ilfracombe Group consists of sandstones and flags, with calcareous slates and crystalline limestones, containing many corals.
Industrially, the Cambrian Rocks are of interest, if only for the reason that the celebrated Welsh slates of Llanberis are derived from highly-cleaved beds of this age.
From the Lithographic Slatesof Solenhofen (Middle Oolite).
When he got to Ramsey the tide was up to the old cross, slates were flying like kites, and the harbour sounded like a battlefield with its thunderous roar of rigging.
The class may bring their slates to the recitation, and the teacher may propose questions successively, the answers to which all the class may write, numbering them carefully.
The slates were not laid away carefully, or they were not clean, so that the writing is not distinct.
You may take your slates with you, and after you have had time to hear the lesson read slowly and carefully twice, I shall come and dictate to you the words aloud, and you will all write them from my dictation.
The Parliamentarians had desecrated the beautiful church; the slates of the roof were lying in heaps where a barrel of gunpowder had been touched off under the graceful octagonal lanthorn of its spire--"the Glory of Cornwall.
Port Isaac, it is true, has a harbour deep enough to admit steamers of 150 tons burden, and most of the Delabole slates are shipped from here, but fishing is the main interest.
But the slates were set up by cunning fingers and have withstood the gales of this coast for a score of years.
Johnston, realising that there must be something going on that required explanation, ordered Frank to bring all the slates up to him.
The others followed as best they could, and all the slates being down, they awaited the doctor's coming around to their class again.
He says--"The formation of Dunk Island is clay slates and micaceous schist.
A level stratum of a soft, greasy, and very red decomposing granitic clay was exposed along the southwest tide-flats, and quartz veins and blue slates were found on the same side of the island further in!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ceiling; eaves; housetop; lantern; overhead; penthouse; roof; roofing; rooftop; shingle; skylight; top
