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clayey

[ US /ˈkɫeɪi/ ]
[ UK /klˈe‍ɪi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
    the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
  2. resembling or containing clay
    argillaceous rocks

How To Use clayey In A Sentence

  • Aloha suddenly became palpable and thus much more real — the odd sponginess of the cold wet earth, neither clayey nor sandy; the frail stringy resistance of the webby brown biofilms before he plucked them off his trouser legs or jacket sleeves. Archive 2010-02-01
  • Again, Portland cement is frequently used as a stabilizer in the preparation of soil blocks, yet it is the wrong choice for certain soils such as clayey soils or black cotton soils. Chapter 8
  • The Eocene London Clay is a succession of marine silty clays, clayey and sandy silts, and subordinate sands reaching a thickness of over 165 m on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK.
  • Based on the limit equilibrium of the soils′ thin-layer elements in the back of retaining wall, calculation formula of the active earth pressure for the clayey soils is suggested.
  • The quantity usually used is 5% and it has proved to be attractive for stabilizing sandy soils, clayey and silty sandy soils, soils rich in limonite (some laterites) in arid regions, and in general soils which lack cohesion. Chapter 11
  • The clayey soils of the region are difficult to work.
  • Alluvial, colluvial or chemically formed gravel, clayey gravel, sandstone, limestone, tuff, scoria are examples of marginal materials.
  • You can make deal that they must provide all material such as clayey soil by themselves. Mug Plate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Letting out a bellow of rage as my feet were swept from under me, I instinctively rolled away just as a tentacle swept the clayey silt where I'd been a fraction of a second ago.
  • The interstratified basalt lava, scoria and pyroclastic rocks yield sand, clayey soils in depressions, on plains and on outward draining slopes and a sterile cemented hardpan surface where hydrated. Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
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