Yellow mountain saxifrage prefers cold and moist well draining neutral to basic bedrock, gravel, sand, or shale cliff environments.

Some shale cliffs are present near the stream, similar to but smaller than the ones lining the Nine Mile Run.

Those in search of Prickly Pear cactus will find them along the shale cliff located across SR 259 from the debris pile.

Hikers who reach the 3,500-foot (1,067 m) cutoff elevation for High Peak status will find themselves at the base of the shale cliffs around the promontory.

Since they lived atop shale cliffs, unsuitable for growing crops, the monks raised animals - chickens, goats, and beef and milk cows - to feed themselves.

Our route next cut across a shale cliff, the effect of which was like walking diagonally through space: the world seemed wildly tilted.

On the other side of the road, the river stretched to the shale cliffs on the opposite shore.

Some shale cliffs may be found along its banks.

Kimmeridge Bay, with its fossil-rich Jurassic shale cliffs, and site of the oldest continually working oil well in the world.

Kelcrag's forces were trapped between Shoveral and the shale cliffs, with nowhere to retreat.