This is Clay Hunt. Clay was a Marine with me.

Bricks consist mostly of clay.

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The heat of the sun hardens clay.

He formed the clay into a bowl.

This house has a clay tile roof.

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Polk won 15 states, while Clay won 11.

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By the way, what's the Hebrew word for clay? Adam.

You notice the clay on the soles of her feet.

Shale gas wells deplete far more rapidly than conventional fields do.

You know, Clay didn't kill himself because of what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Clay killed himself because of what he lost when he came home.

Teenage boys lived in isolation, their bodies covered with white clay.

America s shale gas industry grew by 45 annually from 2005 to 2010, and the share of shale gas in America s overall gas production grew from 4 to 24 .

But perhaps the biggest risk lies with the US shale oil industry.

And we infuse that clay with an ingredient that we call leaven.

United States shale gas production is one of the worst ongoing ecological disasters.

You've got this bentonite clay, which is sort of swells up and expands.

The US shale revolution divided OPEC according to the quality of its members' crude oil.

People like Andrew Dice Clay, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, among others, belong to this camp.

The big news in energy these days is the revolution in technology for tapping shale gas.

With respect to climate change, however, the effects of greater reliance on shale gas are mixed.

Tell Yunatsite is often called the Bird City dozens of clay bird figurines were found here.

By 2035, shale gas is projected to account for roughly one half of total US energy production.

Whether the Saudis succeed will be determined largely by the shale energy industry in the United States.

This one was great it went to 100,000 feet, but didn't quite. Actually, it went 11 feet into the solid clay and it became a bunker buster, drilling down into the clay. It had to be dug out.

Without drastic reform of the social state, European fiscal policy will continue to have feet of clay.

Such red clay is not found within a hundred miles of Edinburgh, except in the botanical gardens.

But the land was of clay soil and inaccessible in the rain there was no good road.

Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, described the global map of major shale oil and gas deposits.

If Russia remains dependent on a natural resource economy, it will again become a colossus with feet of clay.

I touch the wall, rubbing it with my hands thinking it must have been made with clay and blood.

Annual growth in shale gas production has increased from 17 between 2000 and 2006 to 48 between 2006 and 2010.

Of course, technological advances, like hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ) in the shale gas industry, could increase supply and therefore lower prices.

The plan highlights the need to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by shale gas and newly discovered oil reserves.

All the wage freezes in the world won't stop the European petrochemicals industry being hammered by cheap US shale gas.

Certain kind of molecules like to associate with the clay. For example, in this case, RNA, shown in red this is a relative of DNA, it's an informational molecule it can come along and it starts to associate with the surface of this clay.

So I can come in and I can do things, and just treat this planet as a lump of clay.

Clay Shirky, that great chronicler of everything networked, has captured the assumption that this challenges in such a beautiful way.

The coffee powder is then boiled in a clay pot called a Jebena (seen in the left of the photo).

It would enhance US economic competitiveness, especially relative to Europe, given the lower costs involved in the extraction of shale gas.