coral-mud

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noun Decomposed coral; the sediment or mud formed by the disintegration of coral.

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A few miles north of Keeling there is another small atoll, the lagoon of which is nearly filled up with coral-mud.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003
A few miles north of Keeling there is another small atoll, the lagoon of which is nearly filled up with coral-mud.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003
A few miles north of Keeling there is another small atoll, the lagoon of which is nearly filled up with coral-mud.

Chapter XX 1909
No more reason, my dear child, than you would have to guess that this stone had been coral-mud likewise, if I did not teach you so, -- or rather, try to make you teach yourself so.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
It is one great sheet of old coral-reef and coral-mud, which is now called the carboniferous limestone.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
What reason either could she have to guess that Whitby cliff had once been coral-mud, at the bottom of the sea?

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
A few miles north of Keeling there is another small atoll, the lagoon of which is nearly filled up with coral-mud.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845