Closely associated with limestone in commercial uses, as well as in chemical composition, is calcareous marl, which is used extensively in the manufacture of Portland cement. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
It is a kind of marl, of a brown or reddish color. From Wordnik.com. [Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853--,] Reference
The color of this kind of marl is green or dark green. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
The quantity of marl which is usually spread upon an acre of ground is from 150 to 200 bushels. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
The land mostly is very fertile, underlaid with shell marl which is found from two to eight feet below the surface. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
I know how the hieroglyphics came in the caverns of black marl. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
L.C. G. -- They are fossil sharks 'teeth, common in marl beds. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Sandy loam, light vegetable soil, or marl and peat grow them well. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
With his warm, light sand and green marl, he could easily raise them. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
Chalk, marl, weald clay, iron sand, and Oxford clay or clunch clay 20. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832] Reference
It has value in the vicinity of marl beds but does not pay to haul very far. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
They looked for the garden of the Lord, and they find only the "burning marl.". From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
This was the rocky wall of the deep excavation of a marl-pit, long since abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Other forms are gypsum or land plaster, gas lime (a refuse from gas works) and marl. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
On the island of Andros there is an extremely fine white marl almost resembling a chalky ooze. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
In Indianapolis it is composted with marl and sawdust, and after some months used as a fertilizer. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
A clapped-out old Toyota four-wheeler swung off the marl road and rattled down the beach toward us. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Overlying this are beds of marl, loam, and surface soil, comprising in all a depth of fourteen feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
A dark, rusty-colored sand, or a ferruginous marl on a substratum of limestone, kills the tree in a few years. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
If there are pebbles or marl thrown up from deep levels, there is evidence of tombs, and they may be unplundered. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
Of marl, the best fertilizer yet discovered for the Peanut, the principal ingredient of value, is carbonate of lime. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
His request was simple: he wanted to join a private Internet marl list for journalists, in which reporters exchange gossip. From Wordnik.com. [A Walk On The Wired Side] Reference
The soil consists of a chalk subsoil, topped by a covering of rubble that is made up of sand, lignite, marl, loam and clay. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Champagne] Reference
Mr. Milward has drawn carp from his marl-pits 25lb. a brace, and two inches of fat upon them, but then he feeds with pease. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Devonshire, where it is scarcely to be found, because of the red marl, it has come about that the foxglove goes by the name of. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Peters discovered some 'singular-looking indentures in the surface of the black marl forming the termination of the cul-de-sac.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
Consisting of marl, a kind of earth composed of different proportions of clay and carbonate of lime; it is much used for manure. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
In the hollows of the chalk-beds have been formed series of strata -- clay, limestone, marl alternating -- to which the name of the. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
The small streams that had cut across the terraces above had become deeply entrenched riverbeds between shifting dunes of sandy marl. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
After they had gazed in silence a moment into the depths of the marl-pit, Camors called his wife's attention to the unique construction. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It gives excellent crops of potatoes, but they are said to be of inferior quality, unless marl or shell-sand is employed at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
Another extremely abundant compound is carbonate of lime, which, as limestone, chalk, and marl, forms one-sixth of the earth's total rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
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