Slate - nembangan (English spelling) slate

Japanese: 粘板岩 - ねんばんがん(英語表記)slate
Slate - nembangan (English spelling) slate

A mudstone or shale that has been subjected to weak metamorphism and has well-developed schistosity, and therefore tends to break into thin plates along the schistosity. It is also called slate. Strictly speaking, it is a metamorphic rock, but because it is very weakly recrystallized and fine-grained, it is sometimes treated as a sedimentary rock. It is generally dark gray to black in color, with tuffaceous rocks being reddish purple or green. It is common in mudstones of the Mesozoic and Paleozoic strata. The stone is dense and hard, does not absorb much moisture, is easy to quarry as thin plates, and has few irregularities on its cracked surface, so it is used for roof tiles, stone slabs, inkstones, paving stones, stone monuments, etc. Slate stones include Onagawa stone from Miyagi Prefecture, which is highly flaking and forms flat thin plates, and Inai stone from Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, which is less flaking and is quarried for large lumber. Nachiguro, famous as the black stone used for Go stones, is also a black slate.

[Saito Yasuji]

[Reference items] | Shale | Stone | Sedimentary rock | Mudstone | Metamorphism | Schistology

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

泥岩あるいは頁(けつ)岩が弱い変成作用を受け片理がよく発達したために、片理に沿って薄く板状に割れやすい性質をもつ泥質の岩石。スレートともいう。厳密には変成岩であるが、再結晶の程度がきわめて弱く細粒であるために、堆積(たいせき)岩として取り扱うこともある。一般に暗灰色から黒色で、凝灰質のものでは赤紫色や緑色を呈する。中・古生層の泥質岩に多い。石質は緻密(ちみつ)で硬く湿気を吸収することが少なく、薄板として採石しやすく、また割れた表面に凹凸が少ないために、屋根瓦(やねがわら)、石盤、硯(すずり)、敷石、石碑などに利用される。粘板岩の石材としては、剥離(はくり)性に富み平らな薄板状になるものに宮城県女川石(おながわいし)があり、あまり剥離性が発達せず大材として採石される宮城県石巻(いしのまき)市産の井内石(いないいし)がある。碁(ご)石の黒石として有名な那智黒(なちぐろ)も、黒色粘板岩である。

[斎藤靖二]

[参照項目] | 頁岩 | 石材 | 堆積岩 | 泥岩 | 変成作用 | 片理

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