Slate
rock · common
Quick facts
- Hardness
- 3–5
- Luster
- Dull
- Colors
- Gray, black, green, purple
Fine-grained metamorphic rock that splits into thin sheets.
Foliated. Rings when tapped if thin and well cleaved.
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