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The latter, a series of ferruginous shelly sands, are the only preserved in situ product of the late Miocene-early Pliocene marine transgression.
At the laundry pond in addition to the usual species I saw another new species, a group of three ferruginous ducks.
Many species depend on the prairie dog for food or habitat, such as the swift fox, burrowing owl, and ferruginous hawk.
There were about 50 coots, 25 shovelers, and a handful each of mallards and ferruginous ducks.
The lenses are separated by locally discordant horizons of ferruginous, silicic or graphitic, strongly schistose sedimentary to volcanic rocks.
A mixture of bruised arum leaves and stalks with a quantity of dark, ferruginous earth and water was put into the gourd.
The rock is cemented by a mixture of quartz overgrowths, K-rich feldspar, and an oxidized ferruginous clay now dominated by chlorite.
My visit to the Laundry pond yielded only a few birds, a single little egret, a coot, a pair of little grebes, several ferruginous ducks and a small flock of mallards.
In the case of more intense Fe impregnation, scattered quartz clasts supported by a ferruginous matrix may be the only remains of former sandstone.
The beige-to-ochre tropical ferruginous soil displays in its first horizons a sandy texture at slope bottom, and is sandy-clayey on the remainder.
Unit 6 stands out by its characteristics: it is rich in ferruginous pisolites resulting from lateritic accumulations on the plateau.
The area of this municipality allows him to have a variation of soils going croups rocky on the sandy grounds on ferruginous clays!
Both areas are very important for birds, hosting several endangered species such as ferruginous duck, corncrake and bittern.
Perched rocks commonly have a hard capping, such as ferruginous duricrust, and they often show crumbling or exudation around their sides.
This formation is composed by ferruginous sandstones and red silty sand grading down into yellow to white sand.
You can find different kinds of water like magnesic, ferruginous and sulfureous water or water containing sodium chloride and iodide and arsenic sodium iodide.
Some of these include burrowing owl, swift fox, sage grouse, loggerhead shrike, black-tailed prairie dog, yellow-bellied blue racer, and the ferruginous hawk.
Birds taken by Prut wildcats include warblers, ferruginous ducks, coots, spotted crakes, and gadwalls.
And then, Alex gave a little whistle of delight and thrust my head to the scope in time to spot a bundle of feathers: the ferruginous pygmy owl, or as I preferred, tennis ball owl, staring directly back at me.
Generally ferruginous water is cold and it is used as drinking water.
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It contained fragments of earth of a ferruginous color, and emitting a sulphureous smell.
The boulders were all weathered a bright red and were much pitted where ferruginous minerals were leached out.
A paratype has elytra fulvous of dilute ferruginous cast with black mottlings.
It is also prepared from several artificial mixtures of ferruginous clay and lime, calcined together.
The colors vary from smoky to fuliginous, olive and yellow, and the spores are ferruginous.
The submarginal band is buff, narrow, and dusted with more or less ferruginous.
Everywhere was the same blackened, cooling, ferruginous slag.
The hind wings are ferruginous on the under side, mottled with yellow.
The hind wings on this side are ferruginous, mottled with purple.
On the under side the fore wings are fulvous, tipped with ferruginous.
There are sandstones, shales, and grits, with ferruginous joints.
There was also in the garden a mineral spring of a ferruginous quality.
Hicks collected the second fossil record described as from ferruginous sandstone, largely of impure, partly oolitic, limonite, considered typical of the area.
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