marl

• The subsoil at Varrains being largely composed of marl, which is much softer than the tufa of the Saint-Florent coteau, necessitated the roofs of the new galleries being worked in a particular form in order to avoid having recourse to either brickwork or masonry. —  Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
• In other cases the marl is passed through a grinding-mill having a solid bottom and heavy iron rollers, by which means the limestone pebbles are crushed sufficiently and mixed through the whole mass. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• Marse Harris Dickson, who knows more about Vicksburg--and also about negroes, common law, floods, funny stories, geology, and rivers--than any other man in Mississippi, tells me that this marl was deposited by the river, in the form of silt, centuries ago, and that it was later thrown up into hills by volcanic action. —  American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
• Immediately beneath the layer of red sand the original sub-stratum of black, sandy peat extended A grass field, likewise not far from Maer Hall, had formerly been thickly covered with marl, and was then left for several years as pasture; it was afterwards ploughed. —  A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
• A friend had three trenches dug in this field 28 years after the application of the marl, and a layer of the marl fragments could be traced at a depth, carefully measured, of 12 inches in some parts, and of 14 inches in other parts. —  A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.

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