marl

Examples

• All

• Through extensive experimentation over the past three decades, the ceramicist Magdalene Odundo has perfected the use of a marl-rich terra sigillata to create her ceramics.

  Academic text (2009)

• The clay of the banks, the yellow marl, had dirty red and loose-edged brown stripes and ovals in it.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Crossing the flats, I saw a keel track in the marl.

  Fiction book (1990)

• A few years before, as Mr. Wedgwood pointed out, several fields had been covered with lime or burnt marl and cinders.

  Academic text (1999)

• The soil, the residue from a vanished lake, was made up of marls—deposits of clay with high levels of calcium carbonate.

  Academic text (2006)

• Before the Civil War, slaves hauled muck from the river—the marl of which the crest was made—to spread on the fields.

  Fiction book (1996)

• A gently sloping zone that reaches from Long Island to Florida, the Atlantic coastal plain consists of sands, clays, and marls that were laid down over a very long period of time, from 140 million to 2 million years ago, as the ocean shoreline shifted back and forth.

  Academic text (1995)

• The farmer added marl to the fields to improve the soil quality.

• To enhance the garden's fertility, she decided to incorporate marl into the soil.

• Landscapers often use marl to provide essential nutrients for healthy plant growth.

Synonyms

M

malm

vsmarl

• Specialized

9.9

Soft, crumbly rock that farmers use to improve soil

is a loose earthy deposit of calcium carbonate used to add lime to soils

Surface Forms

Etymology