| 单词 | marl |
| 例句 | He appeared at his studio clutching his newly buff torso through a grey marl sweatshirt before proudly bearing his midriff. The Alexander McQueen I knew, by Vogue journalist Harriet Quick 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z The coat is available in only one color – grey marl. Black Friday: Hottest coat deals for women 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z You remember all we were told about the torture chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl”. The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z From this old vineyard, planted in limestone, sand and marl, the wines were exceptional. Our Critic’s Best Wine Moments of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z It shares the same Kimmeridgian marl soils as its glorified neighbor and produces some top-notch sauvignon blanc. This crisp $14 chardonnay will help start your new year off right 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Sediment-hosted copper deposits occurring in sandstones, shales, and marls are enormous in size and their contained resources are comparable to porphyry copper deposits. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z The marl cliffs, which attract thousands of tourists every year, were defaced sometime overnight on Friday. Scala dei Turchi: Sicily's famed cliffs streaked red by vandals 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z I’m talking about a proper tracksuit, matching top and bottoms, and not even in grey marl. Nostril etiquette and quarantinis: how to survive the second act of lockdown 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z A spattering of menswear styles was a nice complement to the urban grit — including an oversize white coat and marl jacket underneath that captured the heady days of the Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards. Givenchy gets gritty as Poiret is relaunched in Paris 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The surveys revealed a multilayer foundation of anhydrite, marl, and limestone, all interspersed with gypsum—which dissolves in contact with water. A Bigger Problem Than ISIS? 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Buying any old grey marl T-shirt was no longer OK – it had to be from American Apparel, the tag showing the price printed in Helvetica. Gaga's meat dress and #TBT: key moments in millennial fashion 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Paleontologists had long known about the fossils in the quarry and in other marl pits in the region. Behind a Shopping Center in New Jersey, Signs of a Mass Extinction 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z You may need to borrow a few kids to get the numbers up – Brangelina have six – but then all you need are a bunch of motorcycle helmets, some grey marl T-shirts, and intergenerational pouting. Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian and Cecil the lion: the ultimate 2015 Halloween costumes 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z One of his drawings shows a quarry, maybe somewhere near his hometown of Nürnberg, displaying horizontal layers of sandstone and thinner layers of marl in a manner similar to da Vinci’s. Leonardo da Vinci's Geological Observations Revolutionized Renaissance Art 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z A penchant for charcoal pashminas and simple grey marl cotton give him a more soulful air than your average meathead footballer. Guardian fashion's fantasy World Cup football team 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Agriculture and Industries.—The soil is generally marl and clay, but in various parts contains calcareous earth in mixed proportions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z For the better part of a century, the Inversand Company scooped a dark greenish sand called marl from the quarry for use in water treatment plants. Behind a Shopping Center in New Jersey, Signs of a Mass Extinction 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z On our left hand a bright sun--the month was November--shone warmly on a line of low hills, formed of reddish earth, and broken by great marl quarries. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z I noticed one, however, the humblest and simplest monument perhaps in the whole cemetery, which left the story beautifully untold; it was a slab of common marl, inscribed "Pauvre Marie!"—nothing more. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Clay, marl, peat, and made soils should be avoided if possible, because they are full of organic matter; they are cold, and they infect the ground air. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The calcareous marl used at Sèvres gave to the French works a superiority over the English, who could only use the clays from our southern counties. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z The origin of this bitumen is disputed: it was supposed to be derived from subaqueous strata of bituminous marl and rose to the surface when loosened by earthquakes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Whittlesey presented two skulls found in a bed of marl in Ohio. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The soil of Antigua is composed of two distinct sorts; the one, a rich black mould on a substratum of clay; the other, a stiff reddish clay, mixed with sand, upon a substratum of marl. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The engrafted part then receives an application of moist marls, is wrapped in leaves and bound with rushes, and is covered with earth, two or three eyes of the shoots being left projecting above ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Some give chopped or ground bones, or a lump of chalky marl. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z The great mass of the Gilead range is formed of Jura limestone, the base slopes being sandstone partly covered by white marls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Ranks first in fertilizing marl, zinc and silk goods; fourth in iron ore; fifth in iron and steel; sixth in buckwheat and soap; seventh in rye. Alden's Handy Atlas of the World 2012-01-02T03:00:16.440Z “Church Hill,” as it is termed, from the fact of the church being erected upon it, has been found to be composed of schist, enveloped in marl, and is particularly rich in its fossil shells. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Gypseous marls, or calcareous marls containing a little gypsum, are preferred to limestone soils, as they allow of deep penetration of the roots of the vines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The river in its section of the plain, as far as Bloody Fall, presents alternately cliffs of reddish sandstone, and red-coloured slaty indurated clay or marl, and shelving white clay banks. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z Finally, there are limestones and marls composed largely of corals and molluscs, which are probably of very late Tertiary or Post-tertiary age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Occasional deposits of marl and limestone of late Pliocene age rest unconformably upon these older beds; and near the coast there are raised coral reefs of modern date. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z This pugging is made from clay or marl mixed with ground sherds, sieved gravel, or some non-vitreous dust to prevent it sticking to the saggars. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z Towards the Caspian, especially between Petrovsk and the river Sulak, the Cretaceous system is well represented, and upon its rocks rest marls, shales, and sandstones of the Eocene period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z They lie, however, chiefly along the coast and in the valleys, and consist of marls, conglomerates and sands, sometimes with seams of lignite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Excluding the schists of doubtful age, the series begins with sandstones and conglomerates, containing pebbles of syenite, granite, diorite, &c.; and these are overlaid by marls, clays and limestones containing Hippurites. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Russell's book on the soil tells how the ancient Gauls and Britons used to fertilize their land with marl, and how the tides help to fertilize England. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z "Earth" comprises clay, mud, ochre, marl, and "peculiar earths" generally. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Strontium sulphate is dug from shallow pits in the red marl of Gloucestershire and Somersetshire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z By giving a dose of lime, or of marl, and ashes, we shall infuse a new life and growth and productiveness that will astonish and delight us, and reward us for our labors and outlay. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z This variety occurs in veins, often running through gypseous marls, with the fibres disposed at right angles to the direction of the vein. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z She remained silent, watching him burying her water bottles in the cool marl. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Cretaceous marls and limestones appear at intervals, extending in places to the edge of the upper plateau, and are extensively developed on the Makonde plateau. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Inland is a broad belt of sandstone and marl with an occasional band of auriferous conglomerate, best known and most extensively worked for gold in the Wasaw district. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Still the waters receded; marshes, muddy swamps, licks, small lakes, ponds, clay and marl deposits were left; sinks and caves were formed; and land plants and animals increased. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z It also occurs in veins among the Serpentine rocks and marls. Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers 2011-09-12T02:00:31.107Z Limestone, gravel and marl are to be had in most other parts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z One popular piece looks like it's a checked lumberjack shirt layered over a grey marl hoodie. How Superdry quietly took over the fashion world 2011-07-14T20:00:02Z When he went into the station he showed the scraps of marl and dark metallic stone he had picked up near where the star had fallen, to James Henty, who had taken up Warria Station. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z It is so firm, in some places, as almost to resist the pick-axe; in others, it partakes more fully of marl, and is readily penetrated. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The shore on the eastern side is formed in places by small bluffs of clay marl, above which can be traced the overlying beds of coral. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z The season was February, and the tortured plains glowed with absorbed heat like Milton’s burning marl. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The marls must have been formed largely by the driftage of sand and clay, while some of the limestone was6 produced by accumulation of corals and shells. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z Certain rocks, as the so-called greensands or marls of eastern New Jersey, contain from 3 to 10 per cent of potash, which makes them valuable fertilizers. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The clay, or red earth, in which the ore is found, appears to partake largely of marl; and a difference of quality is to be observed at the different mines. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The Tertiary sandstones, slates, and clay marls appear forcibly broken through; their strata is partly inclined, partly bent in flat, parallel, wave-like undulations. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Culture, criticism, in certain sterile natures, are like Sheridan's famous apophthegm: they lie "like lumps of marl on a barren moor, encumbering what it is not in their power to fertilise." Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z I told the carters yesterday when I was top-dressing a field with marl, that I wished them to drive their carts in regular order. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. I (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:00:43.727Z Calcium carbonate concentrated in lakes through the combined action of chemical and vital agencies produces the so-called marl, now extensively utilized in the manufacture of Portland cement. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z They consist of black alluvial soil, of unknown depth, and partaking largely of the properties of marl; and the heavy growth of forest trees by which it is covered, indicates the strength of the soil. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z It is covered by a plastic white or yellowish clay and clay marl, with intervening beds of quartz sandstone, formed, like the clay, by the disintegration of the plutonic rock. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Red shale and marl, with thin courses of sandstone near the top. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z That scoundrel, Christian Kohlhaas--he's as stupid as an ox--came up with his cart still full of marl! An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. I (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:00:43.727Z The drive was most curious over the fens, which are now drained, but of which the soil is so light that they are obliged to marl it all over to prevent its being blown away. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z It is so compact in some places, as almost to resist the pick-axe; in others it seems to partake of marl, is less gravelly, and readily penetrated. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Clay is sometimes converted into slate by heat, as is soft marl into limestone, by the same cause. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Its depth was not observed to be very great, nor did the overlying formations, a marl and conglomerates, seem to form obstacles to the miner. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Bed of sandy marl from five to six feet thick, with land and fresh-water shells, covered with a thin layer of angular gravel from one to two feet thick. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z The uppermost is a limestone, very variable in character, both of appearance and hardness, and alternating with calcareous marls. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z It is so compact in some places as almost to resist the pick-axe; in others it seems to partake of marl, is less gravelly, and readily penetrated. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Beneath the thick nummulitic Eocene limestone of the Salt Range are shales and marls with a few coal seams. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Well, they let me take a cutting in hard marl down at Throatisfield Junction. Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works 2011-01-14T03:00:46.103Z In the south-east corner of the county, by Darlington, Stockton and Seaton Carew, the low ground is made of Triassic rocks, red marls and sandstones with beds of gypsum and rock salt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Laornis from the Cretaceous marls of New Jersey was as large as a swan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The Triassic rocks are arranged in two groups, a lower, composed of conglomerates and sandstones, and an upper one consisting of red and mottled shales and marls with thin sandstones and nodular limestones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Extremely valuable and varied marls, kaolins and clays, fuller’s earth, asphaltum and mineral waters show special promise in the state’s industry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The addition of marl to soils that are not naturally calcareous very much improves them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The strata consist of breccias, false-bedded sandstones and marls, the sandstones being extensively quarried for building purposes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z The soil varies greatly according to the district, being in some cases a rich loam, in others a chalky marl, and elsewhere showing a coating of peat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" On one hand a guttered slope of marl and pebbles covered with a tatterdemalion forest—on the other acre upon acre of burnished grain. The Valiants of Virginia The junction of the shales with the marls is quite sharp, and we see that the shales rest on the coloured marls, not horizontally, but sloping down towards the North. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight Most of the fossils which occur extend through a range of several hundred feet and the beds themselves are quite uniform in character, consisting of alternating thin layers of impure limestones and marls. Fossil Ice Crystals An Instance of the Practical Value of "Pure Science" The Tertiary system includes conglomerates, sandstones, limestones and marls, which appear to be of Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The summit of the cliff consists of a bed of marly gravel two yards thick, which is composed of pebbles of granite, sienite, quartz, lydian-stone, and compact limestone, all coated by a white powdery marl. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea This is done along the whole bed; and at the end we use some of the earth we wheeled down at the beginning, to fill the hole on the marl at the bottom. Roses and Rose Growing The lowest strata in the Isle of Wight are the coloured marls and blue-grey shales we have already observed in Sandown Bay, which run through the Island to Brook Bay. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight The cinnabar, as it appears, has accumulated in greatest quantity under impervious rocks such as shales and marls along planes that separate these from underlying rocks of more open texture, mostly limestones. Fossil Ice Crystals An Instance of the Practical Value of "Pure Science" The plain was strewn with great, absolutely round rocks, formed by pebbles agglomerated in marl, huge balls polished by all the submarine currents and deep-sea tides. The Tremendous Event The softer kinds weather readily into a white marl, which is used by the residents to whitewash their houses. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea The second spit in such land as my own garden is much poorer, with a good deal of sandy marl in it. Roses and Rose Growing They consist of marls and shales with bands of sandstone and limestone. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight Phosphatic nodules for manure have been worked from the chloritic marl and Cambridge Greensand, and to some extent from the Middle Chalk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Next in antiquity to hydraulic lime is Roman cement, prepared by heating an indurated marl occurring naturally in nodules. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" It is interstratified with thin beds of soft white marl; and in a few places with a marly sandstone. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea The Eocene includes a series of sandstones and marls with lignite, and these are overlaid by nummulite limestones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" In the marls and shales exposed on the shore we are pretty sure to see pieces of wood, black as coal, sometimes quite large logs, often partly covered with shining iron pyrites. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight This stage includes part of the “white chalk without flints,” the “chalk marl,” and the “grey chalk.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Its remains have been found fossil in the marls and caves of Ireland, and in the Forest-Bed, as well as in a large number of caves in England. The History of the European Fauna It occurred near Auch, in the department of Gers, about forty miles west of Toulouse, in freshwater marl, limestone, and sand. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Celestine occurs in the Triassic rocks of Britain, especially in veins and geodes in the Keuper marl in the neighbourhood of Bristol. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Above the limestone lie the Bembridge marls, varying in thickness in different localities from 70 to 120 feet. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight It is burned for lime, and when mixed with some form of clay is used for the manufacture of cement; chalk marl has been used alone for this purpose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Middle: Sandstones, marls, shales and the most important of the British coals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" A provincial name in the east of England for a series of beds of clay and marl, the geological position of which is between the Upper and Lower Greensand. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology In France they are well exposed on the coast of Calvados between Trouville and Dives, where the marls and clays are 200 ft. thick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" In a limestone exactly resembling this, and similarly situated in the lower part of the marls in Gurnard and Thorness Bays, numerous insects were afterwards found,—beetles, flies, locusts, and dragonflies, and spiders. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight They are in the main terraces of drainage, the step-like form of subsidence being due to the composition of the seleniferous marls and under waste. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield The so-called “unproductive” or barren strata, that is, those without workable coals, are not always limestones; quite as often they are shales, red sandstones and red marls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" These were imbedded, like the former, in tertiary strata of conglomerate, sand, marl, and clay, in the Sub-Himalayan Mountains. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Each group is made up of an alternation of soft marls or clays and hard limestones or sandstones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Bembridge Foreland is formed by a thick bed of flint gravel resting on the marls, which are seen again in Priory Bay, where in winter they flow over the sea-wall in a semi-liquid condition. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight The village stands on the red rock of the middle Lias which bears a capping of clay on the high lands: the lower levels are of the usual marls. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield The stratified rocks of this system include marine limestones, shales and sandstones; estuarine, lagoonal and fresh-water shales, sandstones and marls with beds of coal, oil-bearing rocks, gypsum and salt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The cast-off shells, resembling thin scales, and occurring in countless myriads in many ancient freshwater marls, impart to them a divisional structure, like that so frequently derived from plates of mica. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology He looked like Milton's portrait of Satan, stretched out upon the burning marl of hell. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. To the south-west it ends abruptly, the dividing line between shingle and marls running up steeply into the cliff. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight These are clays and marls in the upper portions and limestones below. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The intervening depression, which seems to be bounded on the west by a fault, is filled to a large extent by sandstones and marls of Eocene age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" It is already ascertained, that the red sandstone and red marl containing the rock-salt of Cardona in Catalonia is newer than the Oolitic, if not more modern than the Cretaceous period. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The foundation of the mould is also various; sometimes clay, then gravel and rocky stones, and sometimes marl. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts On the top of Gore Cliff is a deposit of hard calcareous mud, reaching a thickness of about 9 feet, and forming a small vertical cliff above the slopes of chalk marl. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight The sandy beds and clays then gave way to marly deposits, and in these early stages glauconitic grains are very characteristically present both in the sand and in the marls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Upper: Red and grey sandstones, marls and clays with occasional breccias, thin coals and limestones with Spirorbis, workable coals in the South Wales, Bristol, Somerset and Forest of Dean coalfields. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" A mixture of clay and lime; usually soft, but sometimes hard, in which case it is called indurated marl. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The most extensive are flysch, a soft crumbly rock that is usually sandstone but frequently contains shales, sandy limestones, and marl. Area Handbook for Albania It extends north a few yards beyond the chalk marl on to Lower Greensand. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight The marine deposits are organically formed limestones, in which foraminifera and large bivalve mollusca play a leading part, marls and sandstones; dolomite and oolitic and pisolitic limestones are also known. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Second only to the red marls come the brick earths, which, fortunately, are also widely distributed. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) A provincial name for a soft green sandstone, associated with marl and conglomerates, belonging to the Miocene Tertiary Period, extensively developed in the lower country of Switzerland. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology They lie confusedly bedded in a red unstratified marl, and some of them can be traced to the Welsh hills from twenty to fifty miles distant. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Variegated marls they are called—marl means a limy clay, loam a sandy clay; and very fine are the colours of these marls, rich reds and purples and browns. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight Nodules of pyrites and of marcasite are common in many clays, sandstones and marls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" It should be remarked that none of the samples tested were made from really good Pisé soil, such for instance as the red marls or brick earths. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) In these recent formations, as seen in Forfarshire, two or three beds of calcareous marl are sometimes observed separated from each other by layers of drift peat, sand, or fissile clay. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The low Cordilleras of the Chocos, on the west coast, are covered by soft Quaternary sandstones and marls containing shells of extant species, such as still inhabit the neighbouring ocean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Perhaps you say—I hope you do—there must have been land not far away when these marls and shales were forming. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight It consists of crudely columnar basalt capped by a kind of marl. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions With really suitable material, such as a light brick-earth or marl, it is considered that the results already obtained might well be 100 per cent. better.” Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) The shells are sometimes entirely decomposed, forming a pulverulent marl; sometimes in a state of good preservation. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Joel and his son had been laying marl on their lands, as is usually done in the autumn, so that the lands may be in good condition for seed-time in the spring. The Gold Sickle or Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul On either side of the Point are coloured marls, followed by blue shales, as at Sandown. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight From these marls salt is obtained; there are many beds of rock-salt, mostly thin; two are much thicker than the others, being from 75 ft. to over 100 ft. thick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Is the purchase of marl to be recommended? The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools The stems of Charæ occur fossil in the Scotch marl in great abundance. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The fossil are those dug from the earth, as lime, marl, and gypsum. Soil Culture To the westward, however, after the shales we suddenly come to variegated marls again, followed by a second set of shales. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight Thin beds and veins of gypsum are common in the marls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Thus feldspar, on being pulverized, yields potash; talcose slate yields magnesia; marls yield lime, etc. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools We are informed by Leigh that, on draining Martin Meer, a lake eighteen miles in circumference, in Lancashire, a bed of marl was laid dry, wherein no fewer than eight canoes were found imbedded. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Flanking the hills between Ashbourne and Quarndon are red beds of Bunter marl, sandstone and conglomerate; they also appear at Morley, east of the Derwent, and again round the small southern coalfield. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" In the oncoming of the period we find much marl—limy clay. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight In the barren Ghor I have often watched it perched unconcernedly on a knot of gravel or marl in the plain, watching apparently for the emergence of beetles from the sand. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 Potash marl, such as is found in New Jersey, contains a large proportion of potash, and is an excellent application to soils requiring it. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools Cliffs, often several hundred feet high, composed of sandstone, red marl, and other rocks, which border that bay and its numerous estuaries, are perpetually undermined. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology I've swopped all my marls with the little fellows; and cobnuts are no fun, you silly—only when the nuts are green. Tom and Maggie Tulliver They consist mainly of marls variously coloured, with sandstone and limestone. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight These are succeeded by the Keuper marls and sandstones, well exposed at Sidmouth, where the upper Greensand plateau is clearly seen to overlie them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" These ridges are separated by a sort of valley like a Norwegian fjord, tilled with red marl. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel These brine springs rise up through strata of sandstone and red marl, which contain large beds of rock salt. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology It was a likely-looking contrast to the white marl all around. Tales of Fishes It is true that the husbandman understood the value of manure, and took care that the land should receive as much as possible, and that he knew also of the value of lime and marl. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction In some districts they consist largely of limestones, in others of red sandstones and marls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Of marl, the best fertilizer yet discovered for the Peanut, the principal ingredient of value, is carbonate of lime. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses From these statements, the geologist will 255 not fail to remark how closely these recent lacustrine formations in America resemble the tertiary argillaceous and calcareous marls of lacustrine origin in Central France. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The water was about a foot deep, and the bottom clean white marl, with little patches of vegetation. Tales of Fishes By a spirited use of marl and clay. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction The upper division of the Old Red Sandstone is represented in Shropshire and South Wales by a great series of red rocks, shales, sandstones and marls, some 10,000 ft. thick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Of all the forms of lime, that supplied by the marls of the seaboard section appears to be the best. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses In the various beds pierced through below, consisting of clay, marl, and friable sandstone, with kunkar here and there intermixed, no organic remains of decidedly marine origin were met with. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Here and there we saw little boils of the water, and then a muddy patch where some fish had stirred the marl. Tales of Fishes The flint hatchets found at St. Acheul, France, were obtained from a gravel bed which lay below twelve feet of sand and marl. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Black phosphates are worked in central Tennessee, and in England the marls of the "Old Red" are employed for brick-making. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" The quantity of lime or marl to use at one application depends very much on the nature of the soil and the amount of vegetable matter it contains. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses In Indianapolis it is composted with marl and sawdust, and after some months used as a fertilizer. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) It was really marl, which is dead and decayed coral. Tales of Fishes 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. The Economic Aspect of Geology Limestones, marls and shale of Frasne, and red marble of Flanders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Some of the Virginia marls range as high as seventy and eighty per cent. in carbonate of lime. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses The locomotive thus ordered was placed upon the line in 1829, and was found of great service in drawing the waggons full of marl from the two great cuttings. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Upper Miocene.—Calcareous marl; gypsum, etc.; sulphur embedded in calcareous limestone; silicious limestone; tripoli, containing fossils of fish, insects' eggs, etc. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 The mud or clay becomes a shale, the sand becomes sandstone or quartzite, the marl becomes limestone or marble. The Economic Aspect of Geology In the belt of the formation which extends southwards from Archangel and the White Sea, the strata consist of sands and marls, and contain only fish remains. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Land will bear large quantities of marl with perfect safety, if kept well stocked with some vegetable matter to subdue its caustic effects. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses Indigestion, owing to torpor of the stomach, and a consequent too great acidity of its contents, attend this disease; whence a desire of eating chalk, or marl. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Middle Miocene.—Sandstone containing quartz, intercalated with marl of a saltish taste. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Maroon and tawny yellow are the prevailing tints of the marls, red and brown the colors of the sandstones. The Book of the National Parks Traced through the Baltic provinces, they are found to pass into red and green marls, clays, thin limestones and sandstones, with beds of gypsum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Some Virginia marls contain as high as seventy-five or eighty per cent. of the carbonate, and all of them range over twenty-five or thirty per cent. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses The two last consist of calcareous earth united to phosphoric acid, and the Armenian bole and marl may contain iron. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The following is a list of the various strata which form part of the crust of the earth in Sicily, according to Professor Mottura, an Italian geologist: Pliocene.—Sandstone; coarse calcareous rock; marl. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 The Oceanic series is generally overlaid directly, and unconformably, by coral limestones; but at Bissex Hill, at the base of the coral limestones, and resting unconformably upon the Oceanic series, there is a Globigerina marl. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" On the island of Andros there is an extremely fine white marl almost resembling a chalky ooze. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" With his warm, light sand and green marl, he could easily raise them. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses Nor does he seem to have had any occasion to "tread the burning marl" in company with conny-catchers and their associates. A History of Elizabethan Literature Lower Miocene.—Rock salt; blue marl, containing petroleum and bitumen; flintstone; ferruginous clay, mixed with aragonite and bituminous schists; ferruginous and silicious sandstone. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Another extremely abundant compound is carbonate of lime, which, as limestone, chalk, and marl, forms one-sixth of the earth's total rocks. Manures and the principles of manuring Discovered pit of marl in his glebe; was interdicted by the heritors from working it, but received authority to do so from Court of Session. Chronicles of Strathearn In the beginning of 1888 some fellahìn digging for marl not far from the ruins came upon a number of crumbling wooden chests, filled with clay tablets closely covered on both sides with writing. The Tell El Amarna Period This benefit may well amount to something when we add to peat one-fifth of its bulk of marl or leached ashes, but the question comes up: Do these insoluble mild alkalies exert any direct action? Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel They looked for the garden of the Lord, and they find only the "burning marl." The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Manures which may be regarded as having only an indirect value—e.g., lime, mild and caustic, marl, gypsum, salt, &c. Manures and the principles of manuring Much of the original stone contained little lime, and the human race would become nearly helpless if there were no stores of supply in the form of limestone, chalk, marl, etc. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement Cliffs of marl or sand, rising very abruptly and varying in height from 100 to 300 feet, mark the greater length of the shore. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula They make use of a gray limestone, which is broke in the neighborhood, for promoting the fusibility of the ore; to that purpose they likewise employ a clay marl, which is found near this place. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) 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. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry This cement is made of limestone and clay, or marl, chalk, and slag. Diggers in the Earth There is abundant evidence that pulverized limestone, or lime marl, or oystershell, or any other form of carbonate of lime, corrects soil acidity and helps to make a soil productive. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement Now and then there is found a layer of rock-salt, with one of marl and shells under it, succeeded by rock-salt again, showing that for a time a change had taken place. Chatterbox, 1906 There are marls that are carriers of potash and phosphoric acid, and are to be valued accordingly as fertilizers. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement The composition of marls differs greatly in different districts, and they have been divided into true marls, and clay marls, according as the carbonate of lime or clay is the preponderating ingredient. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Marls! no; I’ve swopped all my marls with the little fellows, and cobnuts are no fun, you silly, only when the nuts are green. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Limestone contains the calcium and magnesium that must be the chief source of supply of American soils, though marls, ashes, etc., have their place. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement The marl and dross of Earth, impalpable, but visibly corrupting, pervade the very nature; and only when the current ceases, will its primitive transparency return. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States The Byzantine coinage of Cyprus was, of course, well known to him while he had himself worked on the oolitic foraminifera of the blue marl at Biarritz. The Book-Hunter at Home The plaster beds are supposed to be separations by molecular attraction from the marl. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings The variety of their strata make the cliffs interesting to geologists, for here are found layers of different kinds of chalk, limestone, greensand, marls, chert, and interspersed lines of flints. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Some of these inferior marls have had so much clay and sand mixed with the lime carbonate that dressings must be heavy. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement By this time we were convinced that the whole of the mountain is not salt, but that a good deal of the upper length of it is a mixture of salt and marl or sand. Byeways in Palestine As his men plodded along over the burning marl, fainting for thirst and finding nothing in the dry torrent beds, so he longed for the refreshment of that gracious presence. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms Green and red marl, shale, and shaly limestone with some veins of gypsum. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings Of calcareous soils we have three varieties, viz.—limestone, limestone gravel, and marl. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry The best lime marls provide excellent material for the correction of soil acidity, the actual value per ton being practically the same as that of the finest pulverized limestone. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement Basalt with traces of chalcopyrite.—L. C. G.—They are fossil sharks' teeth, common in marl beds.—J. E. C.—1. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Second, air-slaked lime, which is also known as carbonate of lime, agricultural lime, marl, and limestone. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition The mastodon, exhumed in 1801, from the marl pits of New York, by Charles Wilson Peale, has proved but one of an order of animal giants. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Our observations show that the Asiatic chestnuts will not thrive in an alkaline soil, as nearly all the losses occurred on an area that had a heavy application of marl. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933 The latter is low in lime, and may be acid, the value of the marl being in a considerable percentage of plant food contained. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement Disappointment will result from the application of lime, marl, salt potash, guano, or any special and highly concentrated substance as a fertilizer, to the neglect of organic manures. Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers The rocks of Dunnet Head, which are provisionally classed with the upper Old Red Sandstone, are composed of red and yellow sandstones, marls and mudstones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Another method of treating these marls, when they are in the plastic condition, is to squeeze them by machinery through iron gratings, which arrest and remove the pebbles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The toilsome going over slipping shingle was like Satan's painful steps on the burning marl, not like those steps On Heaven's azure, and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad The presence of carbonate of lime in the form of pulverized limestone or marl favors the disintegration of any organic matter, but the action is so slow that it may not be observed. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement If adulterated with sand, marl, &c., the ash will always be colored, and will weigh more than 3½ grains. Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers Yorkshire people call this plant the Cowstripling; and in 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 Cowslip. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure 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" Shapes once celestially fair and proud, but now scarred from battle and darkened by sin into faded forms of haggard splendor, support their uneasy steps over the burning marl. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The caustic lime in a soil hastens decay of vegetable matter in a degree impossible to the limestone or marl. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement By this simple experiment, a very small amount of sand, marl, &c., is detected. Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers Sandy loam, light vegetable soil, or marl and peat grow them well. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Such marls require a harder fire than the ordinary brick-clays in order to bring about the reaction between the lime and the other ingredients. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Lime, marl and manure were used for fertilizing, but scantily. The Age of the Reformation Little effect upon physical condition should be expected from the light application usually given when marl is purchased and transported some distance to the farm. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement The principal adulterations are made by the addition of loam, marl, sand, plaster, old lime, ashes, chalk, salt, moisture, and by mixture with other guano of a cheaper quality. Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers Half an hour later we crossed the tracks at Verbena and turned into a broad marl road. In Search of the Unknown When under-fired, marl bricks are very liable to disintegrate under the action of the weather, and great care must be exercised in burning them at a sufficiently high temperature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" In the hollows of the chalk-beds have been formed series of strata—clay, limestone, marl alternating—to which the name of the Tertiary System has been given. 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 There should be no confusion of a lime marl with the so-called "green sand" marl. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement The surface-ground, of yellowish marl with quartz-pebbles, is evidently auriferous, and below it lies a harder red earth rusty with iron. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative At noon he overtook Wentworth, mired to the middle in a marl bed, supporting himself on a half sunken spruce. The Challenge of the North In other districts, where clays containing limestone are used, the marl is mixed with water on a wash-pan and the resulting creamy fluid passed through coarse sieves on to a drying-bed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" A piece of waste land was enclosed, drained, ploughed, harrowed, and thickly covered in the year 1822 with burnt marl and cinders. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Lime fully air-slaked, high-grade marl, and finely pulverized limestone would have the same value, ton for ton. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement In this region, which is called by the Roumanians the region of vines, are to be found marl, sandstone, chalk, and gypsum, with rock-salt, petroleum, and lignite. Roumania Past and Present The walls of the inclosure made a large and almost regular cave or tunnel of blue marl, and in the contrary way from the course of the stream. Tales of the Chesapeake Magnesia may replace lime to some extent in such marls, but the firing temperature must be higher when magnesia is present. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Here, therefore, the fragments of burnt marl and cinders had been covered in the course of 15 years by a layer of fine vegetable mould, only 2½ inches in thickness, excluding the turf. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. No more should be paid for a ton of good chalk marl than an equal weight of fine limestone would cost. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement So, growing impatient, he got out of his skiff, went splashing through the marl water himself, and disappeared in the coppice. Pieces of Eight All the older springs have been found in beds of blue marl, or clay rather, which cover the valley more or less throughout its whole extent. Saratoga and How to See It The broken rocks afford sustenance for many plants, the chloritic marl liberated making the ground wonderfully fertile. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight It was mostly sandstone for the upper strata, with narrow streaks of marl and chalk. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government It has value in the vicinity of marl beds but does not pay to haul very far. The First Book of Farming This clay, well mixed with marl and sand, Follows the motion of my hand; For some must follow, and some command, Though all are made of clay! McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader The surface above the rock consists of bluish marl, similar to that found all along this mineral valley. Saratoga and How to See It The most common are the red and the white, though there are grey, brown, blue, and yellow colored marls. 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. There were fresh hoof-prints in the marl of the hither approach to the shallow ford, but none to match them on the farther side. Empire Builders In the sub-Apennine series of Italy, the great beds of clays, marls, and limestones afford evidence of these destructive processes continued into Pliocene times. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays A considerable variety of manures were in use, chalk, lime, marl, fuller's earth, clay, sand, sea-weed, river-weed, oyster shells, fish, dung, ashes, soot, salt, rags, hair, malt dust, bones, horns, and the bark of trees. A Short History of English Agriculture Between these furrows, the marl, sand, and softer limestones form ridges, now steep, now rising more gently, the sandy soil bearing woods, the limestones cultivated fields. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. Consisting of marl, a kind of earth composed of different proportions of clay and carbonate of lime; it is much used for manure. 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. Rich lowlands and oolites suit the cereals; red marl produces wonderful grazing grass; bare uplands are best for gorse and heather. Science in Arcady The ground that was to support this chimney consisted of very aquiferous, cracked beds of marl, disintegrated by infiltrations of water from the distillery, and alternating with strata of clay. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 The tree also grows well in loams and the richer marls, but will not thrive on clay and other heavy soils. The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Time and thought were my surveyors, They laid their courses well, They boiled the sea, and baked the layers Of granite, marl, and shell. May-Day and Other Pieces "The nearest white mud--marl--in the State, Robelia, is forty miles south of here." The Flower of the Chapdelaines My monologue in praise of you became a triangular discussion; and all the while the pony was cutting up the marl drive with impatience, and Shiela never stirred. The Firing Line There are, however, many beds of marl, greensand, gypsum, limestone, saline and vegetable deposits available for the improvement of farming lands, in the Union. 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. The crannoges were formed on small islets or shallows of clay or marl in the centre of a lake, which were probably dry in summer, but submerged in winter. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 The mould, or soil, which covers this, is also of a yellowish cast, not unlike marl; and is commonly from a foot to two, or more, in thickness. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Metamorphosis of calcareous marl into micaceous schist through granite. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Hamil's plan for the great main park with its terraces, miles of shell and marl drives, its lakes, bridges, arbours, pools, shelters, canals, fully satisfied Cardross. The Firing Line Coarse lands, manured with lime, had answered the farmers' views in wheat, and yielded a great produce, and wherever marl was found there was great store of barley. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times The soil of this border, and of the valleys, is a blackish mould; that of the hills is different, changing as you ascend them into variously coloured earth and marl. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 The sides of the low hills, which appear brown, seem to be constituted of a sort of stone marl. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time On the Phoenician coast was a river Kadisha, "the holy," and the Canaanite maiden saw in the red marl which the river Adonis brought down from the hills the blood of the slaughtered Sun-god Tammuz. Patriarchal Palestine These strata consist of limestones, clays, and marls, which have for the most part been deposited in fresh or brackish water. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science It was we who drained away the bogs and morasses, and by the help of lime and marl converted them into rich land. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Many of you, for years, have walked on burning marl. New Tabernacle Sermons Beside Satan, on the burning marl, lies Beelzebub, his bold compeer, who dreads lest the Almighty comes after them and further punish them. The Book of the Epic Strown over with cinders, the vitreous marl seemed tumbled together, as if belched from a volcano's throat. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II They consist of lignites, clays, marls, and limestones. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science If there are pebbles or marl thrown up from deep levels, there is evidence of tombs, and they may be unplundered. How to Observe in Archaeology Antonyms: unmarketable, unsalable. marl, n. greensand. marriage, n. matrimony, wedlock; wedding, nuptials, espousals, nuptial rites. Putnam's Word Book There they find countless sinners cased in red-hot coffins sunk in burning marl. The Book of the Epic In all times past, things have been overlaid; and though the first fruits of the marl are wild and poisonous, the palms at last spring forth; and once again the tribes repose in shade. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The Faluns occur in scattered patches, which are rarely more than 50 feet in thickness, and consist of sands and marls. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science Blue clay appears in the lowest parts of the basin, and forms the level parts of the plain, with concretions of marl in thin layers. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 During hundreds of years the river has deposited vast quantities of marl at the upper ends of this valley. The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon Or, The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch Slate mixed with quartz on a clayish bottom, and with basalt, is esteemed a good soil, as is also marl and gravel. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland This appearance usually indicates a good soil, which is either of a red or very dark colour, and in which small portions of trap-rock, but more frequently concretions of indurated marl, are found. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 The Older Pliocene portion of the Sub-Apennines consists of blue or brown marls, which sometimes attain a thickness of 2000 feet. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science The bed of the lake also consisted of a very white marl. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 The strata in this space consist, in general, of sand-stone, coal, lime-stone or marble, iron-stone, and marl or argillaceous strata, with strata of analogous bodies, and the various compositions of these. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Arriving at Richmond, I had a strong notion of going into the marl business. History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome The alluvial bed of the stream consisted of marl, fragments of red quartz, and other rocks. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 A large portion of the Permian series, as already remarked, consists of sandstones and marls, deeply reddened by peroxide Page 193 of iron, and often accompanied by beds of gypsum or deposits of salt. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science The heath is lime-poor; marl is lime in the exact form in which it best fits that sandy soil. Hero Tales of the Far North But the greatest part is tinged by the admixture of the marl, and that in various degrees, from the slightest tinge of red, to the most perfect opacity. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) I had been down into Kent county, the summer before, where I saw great mountains of this white marl composed of shells of clams and oysters white as chalk. History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome The sandstone, reduced by ages to a crumbling marl, was of all colors. Overland The Jackson series is represented by lignitic clays and marls which occur at Jackson, Mississippi. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science At last accounts he had found marl in more than seventeen hundred places, and he is not done yet. Hero Tales of the Far North The salt rock in Cheshire lies in strata of red marl. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) There were no deposits of marl in Italy, and so the Romans knew nothing of its use, from experience, but Pliny's treatment of the subject shows a sound source of information. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro The sedimentary rock of sandstone, shales, and marl, not only showed veins of ignitible lignite, but it was pierced by the trap which had been shot up from earth's flaming recesses. Overland In France, the Lower Miocene is represented in Auvergne, Cantal, and Velay, by a great thickness of nearly horizontal strata of sands, sandstone, clays, marls, and limestones, the whole of fresh-water origin. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science So the marl borer went with the canal digger. Hero Tales of the Far North A sensible or considerable portion of calcareous earth, in the composition of clay, constitutes a marl, and a sufficient admixture of sand, a loam. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) In England, where several kinds of marl are found in quantities, its use was probably never discontinued after the Roman times. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro These were of sandstone marl, the caps consisting of hard red and green shales, while the swelling boles, colored by gypsum, were as white as loaf-sugar. Overland The series consists of clays, marls, sands, and conglomerates, capped by a compact limestone, which attains a thickness of from 700 to 800 feet. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science With water and marl, the means were at hand for fighting it and winning out. Hero Tales of the Far North The strata there, as in Berwickshire, which is their continuation to the east, are remarkably horizontal for Scotland; and they consist of alternated beds of sand-stone and marl, or argillaceous and micaceous strata. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) In connection with the history of the use of marl in agriculture may be cited the tender tribute which Arthur Young recorded on the tombstone of his wife in Bradfield Church. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro Thurstane presently solved the mystery by pointing out three crouching figures on the flat cap of stone which surmounted the shales and marl of the butte. Overland The Upper Permians, consisting of a series of sandstones and shales, or of red or mottled marls, often gypsiferous, and sometimes including beds of limestone. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science While the canal digger and marl seeker were at work, there had been neighborhood meetings and talks at which Captain Dalgas did the talking. Hero Tales of the Far North But those injecting operations reach no farther up among the marl strata in this place; and then would appear to have been confined to the pudding-stone. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) The necessary angles and bearings for the survey, were taken from the top of some cliffs sixty feet high, composed of a red sand and ironstone, and a white kind of marl or pipe clay. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. The sandstone and marl had been worn away by the departed river, and by the delicately sweeping, incessant, tireless wings of the afreets of the air, leaving the iron-like trap in bold projection. Overland They consist of sandstones, conglomerates, limestones, marls, and beds of gypsum. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science Money is flowing into the moor in the wake of the water and the marl. Hero Tales of the Far North Those strata of marl are in general not much consolidated; but among, them there are sometimes found thin calcareous strata extremely consolidated, consequently much divided by veins. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Many of the cliffs were composed of a light-coloured marl; but the formation is chiefly old arenaceous rocks. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. It seemed to him as if they might at any moment emerge upon the lake of burning marl, and float into the shadow of the walls of Pandemonium. Overland The term "marl" is very generally employed to designate the clays of the Lower and Upper Trias; but the term is inappropriate, as they may contain no lime, and are therefore not always genuine marls. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science Their fronts were open piazzas, their sides were lathed and plastered, sometimes with white marl, sometimes with reddish clay, and they had plank doors and were roofed neatly with cypress bark or clapboards. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 The second place was Jedburgh, where I found the vertical strata covered with the horizontal sandstone and marl, as has been now described. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Then they wheeled to the right, passed through a thin belt of shade trees, across a splendid marl drive and a vast unkempt lawn. Ailsa Paige It was a bluff or butte of limestone which innumerable years had converted into marl, and for the most part into earth. Overland In Britain, the Keuper is 1000 feet or more in thickness, and consists of white and brown sandstones, with red marls, the whole topped by red clays with rock-salt and gypsum. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science His ultimate conclusion was that marl was of little benefit to land such as he owned at Mount Vernon. George Washington: Farmer And moreover, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, he no longer supposes that infidels, of his own family or acquaintance at any rate, will consume for eternal ages in lakes of burning marl. On Compromise The bottom of the sea," says Captain Stirling, "is composed of calcareous sand, sometimes passing into marl or clay. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 In places where the marls had been washed away gently, the emigrants found trunks complete, from root to summit, fifty feet in length and three in diameter. Overland Grey and black limestone, with calcareous marls having a thickness of about 50 feet. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science Farther down there were other hillocks, equally bare, but formed of the blue-looking lias marl which the husbandman detests with good reason, for its sterility is incorrigible. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Out in the stream a dredger, all drab with marl, was discharging one after the other its bucket-fuls of miry gravel. The Aspirations of Jean Servien "Indeed, these people must certainly be prompted by a most violent indignation," said the young marl, with the same impassible tone which he had preserved all along. The Black Tulip They are giant splendors, hundreds of feet in height, built of blood-red sandstone capped with variegated marls. Overland Other more extensive areas where Triassic rocks appear at the surface, are found west of the Mississippi, on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains, where the beds consist of sandstones and gypsiferous Page 206 marls. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science The lower sides of some of the hills were blue with lias marl, and wherever they were steep not a blade of grass grew. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine First your stubborn lands And churlish hill-sides, where are thorny fields Of meagre marl and gravel, these delight In long-lived olive-groves to Pallas dear. The Georgics The Tuscan alabaster occurs in nodular masses, embedded in limestone, interstratified with marls of Miocene and Pliocene age. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 A crevice in the northern wall of the enclosure looked out upon a steep slope of marl, almost a precipice, which slanted sheer into the boiling flood of the San Juan. Overland Then you half-knot some half the inside yarns over that bit of wood you have there, and scrape the rest of them down over the others, and marl, parcel, and serve them together. The Mutineers In taking by-paths to reach the causse, I passed over hillocks of chocolate-coloured marl mixed with broken schist and flints: here the broom and juniper, the heather and bracken, flourished. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The waters which rise from springs passing through marl or limestone are replete with calcareous earth, and when thrown over morasses they deposit this earth and incrust or consolidate the morass. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Lime and marl are mentioned as common manures, and the former was sometimes spread on the surface to destroy heath. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 One of these which I have examined, about fifty feet high, consisted of white clay and marl, in nearly horizontal strata. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources A few minutes of rest upon a certain block of marl, whose genial warmth is most grateful, squatting in the sharp cold air, neatly removes all cloth in contact with the surface. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I These latter are often found in the Triassic fish-beds of Connecticut and New Jersey, and in the Cretaceous marls of the latter State. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 If it met with the fluor acid it became fluor; if with the siliceous acid, flint; and when mixed with clay and sand, or either of them, acquires the name of marl. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation I know how the hieroglyphics came in the caverns of black marl. A Strange Discovery It consists of marl and earthy limestone, and the weather is rapidly diminishing its height, which is not more than two hundred feet above the river. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources The floor was a surface of burning marl and whitish earthy dough-like paste, the effect of sulphurous acid vapours upon the argile of the lava. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I In some places the country rock is composed of marls, and here the surface is a bed of loose, disintegrated material through which one walks as in a bed of ashes. Canyons of the Colorado By its union with the calcareous earth of the morass other strata of siliceous sand have been produced; and by the mixture of this with clay and lime arose the beds of marl. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation He proceeds to explain that the sides of the abyss had apparently never been connected, one surface being of soapstone, the other of black marl. A Strange Discovery Leaving camp, our road soon approached the hills, in which strata of a marl like that of the Chimney rock, hereafter described, made their appearance. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources He has more leisure to marl or lime his land. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished Often these marls are richly colored and variegated. Canyons of the Colorado Some centuries afterwards another similar process might take place, and either thicken the coal-bed, or produce a new clay-bed, or marl, or sand, or deposit iron upon it, according to the concomitant circumstances above mentioned. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation In gross marl, in blowing dust, In the drowned ooze of the sea, Where you would not, lie you must, Lie you must, and not with me. Last Poems by A. E. Housman This region appears to be entirely free from the limestones and marls which give to the Lower Platte its yellow and dirty color. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources He goes back to the sand and raises the marl, with which he covers the surface; or he returns to the clay and sinks into the limestone, by aid of which he doubles its product. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished But wherever there was a lava vent it was filled with molten matter, which on cooling was harder than the sandstones and marls through which it penetrated. Canyons of the Colorado In its final, imperious stage, it seems the unjoyous dissipation of demons, seeking diversion on the burning marl of perdition. Daniel Deronda This tertiary stratum is composed of alternate beds of calcareous conglomerate, compact limestone, marl, and clay, containing selenite and lamellar gypsum. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Between the forks, and from their junction to the Black hills, the formation consists of marl and a soft earthy limestone, with granitic sandstone. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Lias, a set of strata variously composed of limestone, clay, marl, and shale, clay being predominant; 2. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Crossing the stream, our trail leads up a narrow canyon, not very deep, and then among the hills of golden, red, and purple shales and marls. Canyons of the Colorado In some deep spots further west, grey, white, red, and yellow clays have been deposited in small beds over each other, giving them the appearance of variegated marls. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes I was greatly interested in comparing this latter formation with the strata of carburetted marl contained in the Alpine limestone of Cumanacoa. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Near the point of this ridge crop out some strata of the valley formation, consisting of a grayish micaceous sandstone, and fine-grained conglomerate, and marl. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources The variegated marl beds which constitute the uppermost group of the formation, present two additional genera of huge saurians, - the phytosaurus and mastodonsaurus. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Below, they are composed of shales and marls of light blue and slate colors; above, the rocks are buff and gray, and then brown. Canyons of the Colorado The meeting of the stiff marl and the fine sand was abrupt, and well marked by the vegetation. At Last It appears that they exported thither salt, the art of manufacturing which was well known to them; and they brought back in return marl, a most important commodity for the improvement of their land. Holland The History of the Netherlands We continued along the valley on the right bank of the Sweet Water, where the formation, as already described, consists of a grayish micaceous sandstone, and fine-grained conglomerate, and marl. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources ‘There again—don’t you see something move under that marl bank?’ Yeast: a Problem And the red marl—the great deposit of red marl which covers a wide region of England—why should not it have come from the same quarter? Town Geology From the "burning marl" of the staring streets he planted his foot again on the dock with a genuine exultation. Byron Presently, as he shovelled in a circle, always two feet deep, moving the light as he moved, he saw on the top of a shovelful of marl—a twig: barkless, black, cracked—scorched! The Lord of the Sea It was shut in by high, perpendicular banks, in which were strata of white laminated marl. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources In my opinion, therefore, the bowler's lot, in spite of billiard table wickets, red marl, and such like inventions of a degenerate age, is the happier one. Tales of St. Austin's The red marl must almost certainly have been black slate somewhere, somewhen. Town Geology The freshwater marl, containing numerous skeletons of the great deer, or Megaceros, overlie in the Isle of Man that marine glacial drift. The Antiquity of Man Even the marl had a scorched look; and his agitation grew to ecstasy. The Lord of the Sea The phenomenon of a basaltic rock containing masses of indurated marl split into small columns, is also found in the Mittelgebirge, in Bohemia. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Her once dazzling beauty was now transformed to a haggard glare—the terrible lightning which gleamed on the face of Satan, when he sat brooding on the burning marl of Tartarus. The Scottish Chiefs Some of the richest red marl land I know, is, as I have said, actually being made now, out of the black slates of Ilfracombe, wherever they are weathered by rain and air. Town Geology White siliceous sand with layers of chalky marl, and included fragments of Chalk, for the most part unstratified, 9 feet. The Antiquity of Man Where is marl found and what is said of it? School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time The compact basalt alternates with the strata of porous basalt and marl. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Of course, in arid as in humid countries, it often happens that a soil is underlaid, more or less near the surface, by layers of rock, marl deposits, and similar impervious or hurtful substances. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall The difference in colour between black slate and red marl is caused simply by the oxidation of the iron in the slate. Town Geology Seams of laminated marl often bent round upon themselves. d. The Antiquity of Man Those of the Tidewater section are summed up in its marls. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time The marl of Graciosa contains a great quantity of chalk, and strongly effervesces with nitric acid, even on points where it is found in contact with the basalt. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 I declare that such a performance is the sort of thing that I should expect to find in hell, even down to the burning marl, as Milton says. From a College Window And if my readers want a probable cause why the sandstones lie undermost, and the red marl uppermost—can they not find one for themselves? Town Geology From the same beds, and in marls alternating with the sands, remains of the elephant, rhinoceros, and other mammalia have been exhumed. The Antiquity of Man In the form of ashes, marl or chalk, lime has been used as a fertilizer for thousands of years. The Farm That Won't Wear Out After visiting the pyritous marls of the Rio Juagua, we continued following the course of the crevice, which stretches along like a narrow canal overshadowed by very lofty trees. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The fertilizing minerals—gypsum, marl, and greensand—abound, and their judicious use readily restores the lands when exhausted by improvident cultivation. Three Acres and Liberty And why should not the slates in the roof be the remnants of the very beds which are now the marl in the fields? Town Geology White sand with bent and folded layers of marl, thickness, 6 feet. The Antiquity of Man It is a charming little valley, full of islands, a mere expansion of the walls, 9 miles long,—9 miles of rainbow, for the surrounding rocks and marls are of every hue. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons The supposed gold mine of Cuchivano, which was the object of our examination, is nothing but an excavation cut into one of those black strata of marl, which contain pyrites in abundance. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Associated with the marls and limestones of Monte Bolca are beds containing lignite and shale with numerous plants, which have been described by Unger and Massalongo, and referred by them to the Eocene period. The Student's Elements of Geology With them I will not confuse the reader just now, but will only ask him to keep his eye on the rolling plain of New Red sands and marls past, say, Birmingham and Warwick. Town Geology Red jasper is abundant in this locality, and is generally found in small pieces embedded in the marls. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 When examining the junction between these two formations, I thought that the concretionary layer of marl marked a passage between the marine and estuary stages. Geological Observations on South America All these geological data tend to prove that strata of marl, more or less mixed with carbon, are to be found in the limestone of Jura, in the alpine limestone, and in the transition schists. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 To these conglomerates succeed argillaceous and calcareous marls and limestones, containing Lower Miocene shells and bones of mammalia, the higher beds of which sometimes alternate with volcanic tuff of contemporaneous origin. The Student's Elements of Geology And such, I think, we can find in the so-called New Red sandstone, which, with its attendant marls, covers a vast tract—and that a rich and busy one—of England. Town Geology The dark red, or black astringent wines, are produced upon the white marls and cretaceous limestone. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 At eighty miles from the coast, in a cliff thus composed, there were a few layers of ferruginous sandstone, and of an argillaceous sandstone with concretions of marl like those in the Pampas. Geological Observations on South America The strata of marl effervesce with acids, though silex and alumina predominate in them: they are strongly impregnated with carbon, and sometimes blacken the hands, like a real vitriolic schistus. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 These rocks are well- known to rest conformably on the Sub-apennine marls, even as far south as Monte Mario, in the suburbs of Rome. The Student's Elements of Geology I have never seen them, and can only say that the salt does not, it is said by geologists, lie in the sandstone, but at the bottom of the red marl which caps the sandstone. Town Geology The soil was a rich reddish chocolate, forming a grateful contrast to the glaring white marls that we had just quitted, and which composed the steep hills that surrounded the lower basin. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 These beds, from the number of littoral species, must have been accumulated in shallow water; but not, judging from the stratification of the gravel and the layers of marl, on a beach. Geological Observations on South America Near these caverns we saw strata of schistose marl, and found, with great astonishment, rock-crystals encased in beds of alpine limestone. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The limestone passes downward into a sandstone and conglomerate, below which is clay and blue marl, from which perfect shells and corals may be disengaged. The Student's Elements of Geology After those places, these sands and marls dip to the south-east, and other rocks and soils appear above them, one after another, dipping likewise towards the south-east—that is, toward London. Town Geology I walked over the mountain, and quickly lost the marl in masses of plutonic rocks that had been upheaved and entirely occupied the surface. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 All mines and minerals, limestone and stone quarries, marl and clay, in his lands, with full power to work the same. Second Shetland Truck System Report The whole rocky mass of the Turimiquiri is composed of an alpine limestone, like that of Cumanacoa, and a pretty thin strata of marl and quartzose sandstone. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Beds of flint, continuous or in nodules, accumulated in these lakes, and aquatic plants called Charae, left their stems and seed-vessels imbedded both in the marl and flint, together with fresh-water and land shells. The Student's Elements of Geology But its rich red marls, wherever they come to the surface, are one of God’s most precious gifts to this favoured land. Town Geology The zigzags were upon a surface of white marl, which during wet weather would become as slippery as soap, and be impassable for loaded animals. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Now, Hesper, guide my feet Down the red marl with moss o'ergrown, Through yon wild thicket next the plain, Whose hawthorns choke the winding lane Which leads to her retreat. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 Can these flames be attributed to the decomposition of water, entering into contact with the pyrites dispersed through the schistose marl? or is it inflamed hydrogen that issues from the cavern of Cuchivano? Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 This clay rests immediately on the Paris gypsum, or that series of beds of gypsum and gypseous marl from which Cuvier first obtained several species of Palaeotherium and other extinct mammalia. The Student's Elements of Geology You find cracks where the marl mud has dried in the sun: and, more, you find the little pits made by rain. Town Geology I had never met with anything like this singular example of igneous action upon marls. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 I need hardly say these bombastical phrases did not elevate his general dialect: they lay fearfully distinct upon the surface, "like lumps of marl upon a barren soil, encumbering the ground they could not fertilize." White Lies Here therefore the fragments of burnt marl and cinders had been covered in the course of 15 years by a layer of fine vegetable mould, only 2.5 inches in thickness, excluding the turf. The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits But at a later period, when a considerable thickness of sandstone and marl had accumulated, eruptions broke out, and lava and tuff were deposited, at some spots, alternately with the lacustrine strata. The Student's Elements of Geology He was not ten yards away, but his approach over the soft, yielding marl had been unheard. Captain Blood In many places the surface glistened with ice-like sheets of gypsum, which cropped out of the cold white marls and produced a wintry appearance that increased the desolation. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? Much Ado about Nothing A piece of waste, swampy land was enclosed, drained, ploughed, harrowed and thickly covered in the year 1822 with burnt marl and cinders. The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits The same genus has also been found in the Upper Eocene marls of Hordwell Cliff, Hampshire, just below the level of the Bembridge Limestone, and therefore a formation older than the Gypsum of Paris. The Student's Elements of Geology Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? Much Ado about Nothing He footed as on burning marl, When out of Hall he paced. Poems — Volume 2 It is frequently mixed with marl, and with marine substances in a state of decomposition. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains This clay, well mixed with marl and sand, Follows the motion of my hand; Far some must follow, and some command, Though all are made of clay! The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A small stream falls in a succession of cascades over the harder beds of pudding-stone, which resist, while the sandstone and plant-bearing shales and marls give way. The Student's Elements of Geology This clay, well mixed with marl and sand, Follows the motion of my hand, For some must follow and some command, Though all are made of clay. A Master's Degree Humboldt, who analyzed the cement of the ancient structures at Cannar, says that it is a true mortar, formed of a mixture of pebbles and a clayey marl. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas Down the red marl with moss o'ergrown, Through yon wild thicket next the plain, Whose hawthorns choke the winding lane Which leads to her retreat. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse At the western extremity of the Pyrenees, great curvatures of the strata are seen in the sea-cliffs, where the rocks consist of marl, grit, and chert. The Student's Elements of Geology It is associated with marls and other deposits, such as may have been formed in marshes and shallow lakes in the newest part of a great delta. The Student's Elements of Geology The obscurity has arisen from the great resemblance in colour and mineral character of the Triassic and Permian red marls and sandstones, and the scarcity and often total absence in them of organic remains. The Student's Elements of Geology A thin film of marl, which before it was dried and condensed by pressure must have represented a much thicker layer of soft mud, intervened between the beds of solid gypsum. The Student's Elements of Geology The lower chalk without flints passes gradually downward, in the south of England, into an argillaceous limestone, "the chalk marl," already alluded to. The Student's Elements of Geology It consists of a dark blue marl, sometimes intermixed with green sand. The Student's Elements of Geology The thickness of the marls is ten feet, and vegetable matter predominates so much in some layers as to form an imperfect lignite. The Student's Elements of Geology In some instances, red marl and gypsum have been found associated with these beds. The Student's Elements of Geology There are three superimposed masses of gypsum in the neighbourhood of Paris, separated by intervening deposits of laminated marl. The Student's Elements of Geology The arenaceous division, the marls, and the limestone may all be seen in some places to alternate with each other; yet it can by no means be affirmed that there is no order of arrangement. The Student's Elements of Geology Beneath the Gres de Fontainebleau, belonging to the Lower Miocene period, as before stated, we find, in the neighbourhood of Paris, a series of white and green marls, with subordinate beds of gypsum. The Student's Elements of Geology Nearly all the plants at Monod are contained in three layers of marl separated by two of soft sandstone. The Student's Elements of Geology In the 19th bed are numerous fish, insects, and plants, below which are marls of a blue indigo colour. The Student's Elements of Geology The upper division of this group consists in great part of beds of compact, fragile limestone, with some intercalated green marls. The Student's Elements of Geology The strata there, which I have myself examined, consist of alternations of conglomerate, sandstone, and finely laminated marls with fossil plants. The Student's Elements of Geology The chloritic sand is regarded by many geologists as a littoral deposit of the Chalk Ocean, and therefore contemporaneous with part of the chalk marl, and even, perhaps, with some part of the white chalk. The Student's Elements of Geology Below this is an indigo- blue marl, like that at the bottom of the higher quarry, resting on yellow marl ascertained to be at least thirty feet thick. The Student's Elements of Geology The siliceous sandstone called "upper quader" by the Germans overlies white argillaceous chalk or "planer-kalk," a deposit resembling in composition and organic remains the chalk marl of the English series. The Student's Elements of Geology This upper chalk is usually succeeded, in the descending order, by a great mass of white chalk without flints, below which comes the chalk marl, in which there is a slight admixture of argillaceous matter. The Student's Elements of Geology By such downward pressure particles of clay, sand, and marl may become packed into a smaller space, and be made to cohere together permanently. The Student's Elements of Geology More commonly we find sand and clay, or clay and marl, intermixed in the same mass. The Student's Elements of Geology Between the Jumna and the Ganges they consist of inclined strata of sandstone, shingle, clay, and marl. The Student's Elements of Geology It has been applied to substances in which there is no lime; as, to that red loam usually called red marl in certain parts of England. The Student's Elements of Geology In many parts of France— in Auvergne, for example— strata occur of limestone, marl, and sandstone hundreds of feet thick, which contain exclusively fresh- water and land shells, together with the remains of terrestrial quadrupeds. The Student's Elements of Geology Agriculturists were in the habit of calling any soil a marl which, like true marl, fell to pieces readily on exposure to the air. The Student's Elements of Geology In the northern part of the Isle of Wight formations of marl and limestone, more than 50 feet thick occur, in which the shells are of extinct species. The Student's Elements of Geology They consist of marls, clays, and limestones of fresh-water, brackish, and marine origin. The Student's Elements of Geology |
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