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Alluvial, colluvial or chemically formed gravel, clayey gravel, sandstone, limestone, tuff, scoria are examples of marginal materials.
Carbonaceous shale, including oil shale, occurs in beds of clayey to silty mudrock from 0.3 to 3 m thick.
On their lee sides some pans have clay dunes or lunettes composed of sandy, silty, clayey, and salty materials blown out from the pan floor.
Here, the upper mudstone of the TST is erosively overlain by 3 m of bioturbated, clayey sandstone and mudstone.
The prairie barrens occur on limestone with shallow clayey soils that are well-drained.
The area has non-calcareous, brown loamy clayey soils, developed from calcareous marl.
That is not the case for clayey products for which drying is a critical stage.
The streambank slopes here, made mostly of clayey silt, are 20 to 30 m high.
The terrain is characterized by overall acclivity of the land, which is clayey and difficult to cultivate, but well-suited to olive growing.
A silica clayey plateau with wooded savannah extends north of Abomey to the foothills of the Atakora hill in the north.
Moreover, the ground would be better hydrated, especially in a city like Montreal, which has a clayey earth, a major cause of drought.
Mainly of clayey nature, the shore land may be swampy, because it seldom rises to more than 3 m above the river water.
Coteau has clayey limestone soils of irregular stoniness on a bedrock of limestone strata of varying depths.
If the soil is clayey, it is very important to know the phreatic table level, because roots can be roted.
However, the clayey nature of the soils makes these areas vulnerable to erosion and landslides.
The area is underlain by competent attenuative clayey and red lateritic soils.
Similarly, soils in a chronosequence developed on alluvium can exhibit a clayey hardpan after 100,000 years or so.
The silty and clayey soils in the region were deposited in standing bodies of water during and after the glacial retreat.
This whole lithologic series which forms the monocline of the deposit of Dhaya is covered by a clayey layer from 1 to 1.5 metres in thickness.
Soil improvement has proved to be of great worth in particular in landfills with clayey subsoil.
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In the wet, clayey soil of the drain our limbs had long become stiff and unmovable.
The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants.
The soil is a clayey or a sandy loam, and very fertile except in the USAR tracts, where there is a saline efflorescence.
Among these earths are the clayey, bolar, sandy earths, and others of that kind.
Where the Rhone enters the Mediterranean, there are some 40,000 acres of sandy and clayey land called the camargue.
The boundary between these formations is also marked by the development of masses of dolerite and clayey basalt.
The clayey mass of feculent matter forms a hard ball in the distended bowel, around which the small loose passages flow.
The insect first digs in the clayey earth a recess with an oval curve to it.
My new clothes was all greased up and clayey, and I was dog-tired.
The result is a clayey soil, less favorable to wheat and Indian corn.
The soil of the Pampa is clayey and soft in the districts near the river.
Use of clayey gravel or an accumulation of dirt on the surface.
If our soil is clayey the whole top dressing will be hoed off.
It seems to me to be a clayey sandstone penetrated by silica.
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