How To Use Clayey In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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The clayey soils of the region are difficult to work.
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Alluvial, colluvial or chemically formed gravel, clayey gravel, sandstone, limestone, tuff, scoria are examples of marginal materials.
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You can make deal that they must provide all material such as clayey soil by themselves.
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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.
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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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The Cherokee Plains ecoregion is a nearly flat erosional plain that is dominated by clayey, slowly to very slowly permeable soils; it is less irregular and more poorly-drained than the Osage Cuestas (40b).
Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
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The rolling to hilly well-dissected upland contains mostly gneiss and schist bedrock that is covered with clayey and micaceous saprolite.
Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
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Clayey gravel or gravel, and crushed igneous rocks are commonly used as pavement materials, and cementitious binders are the main stabilising agents.
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Some were dark, some had beige or clayey or bluish skin, all of them looked edgy and dangerous.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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The fine-textured, clayey soils have smectitic or carbonatic mineralogy.
Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)
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It contains, in the peninsula of Araya, garnets disseminated in the mass, cyanite and, when it passes to clayey-slate, small layers of native alum.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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But there was no rest in any part; the canoe descended deeper and deeper into the gulley, through which the river flows between high clayey banks, as the water subsided, and with the glowing sun overhead we felt at midday as if in a furnace.
Weatherwatch: heat and mosquitoes in the Amazon
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The prairie barrens occur on limestone with shallow clayey soils that are well-drained.
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A similar effect can be created by perched water tables formed by silty or clayey layers of low permeability within alluvial soils, or cemented layers in weathered, residual soils.
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Extensive playas occur and are nearly flat, clayey, and salty.
Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)
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Soils from argillite are clayey, poorly drained, and have hardpans in lower horizons.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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Clayey gravel or gravel, and crushed igneous rocks are commonly used as pavement materials, and cementitious binders are the main stabilising agents.
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But we have to say that the pedestal we had TED on is looking kinda clayey.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Sin, a city in Egypt, called by the Greeks Pelusium, which means, as does also the Hebrew name, "clayey" or "muddy," so called from the abundance of clay found there.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Soils are clayey and slightly permeable, with internal drainage, and easily compactible.
Tikal National Park, Guatemala
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Robert W. Carter, of Sabine Hall_, on the Rappahanock, whose land is principally of that kind of clayey loam common upon that river, once rich but badly worn by cultivation, is so well satisfied that it is profitable to make rich lands still more rich, he buys annually 30 or 40 tons of the best in market.
Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers
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Here, the upper mudstone of the TST is erosively overlain by 3 m of bioturbated, clayey sandstone and mudstone.
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Almost half the reserve area is formed of marismas - freshwater marshes on accumulated clayey silt - where the Guadalquivir river delta has been deflected and ponded by a coastal sand spit (~27,000 ha).
Doñana National Park, Spain
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Some areas, like the vegetable plot, have been well cultivated in the past and have a deep, well-textured soil, while other areas are more compacted with a clayey subsoil quite close to the surface.
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The area has non-calcareous, brown loamy clayey soils, developed from calcareous marl.
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These characteristics of the country rock, however, are likely to be masked at the outcrop by later weathering, which superposes a kaolinic or clayey alteration.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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On their lee sides some pans have clay dunes or lunettes composed of sandy, silty, clayey, and salty materials blown out from the pan floor.
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These characteristics of the country rock, however, are likely to be masked at the outcrop by later weathering, which superposes a kaolinic or clayey alteration.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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Negras for one of the strata of compact limestone without grains of quartz and petrifactions, which are frequently found amidst the tertiary conglomerate of Barigon and of the Castillo de Cumana; the saliferous clay of Araya would appear to them analogous to the plastic clay of Paris, * or to the clayey shelves (dief et tourtia) of secondary sandstone with lignites, containing salt-springs, in Belgium and Westphalia.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Soils developed from clayey alluvium including overbank and slack-water deposits; they commonly have a high shrink-swell potential and are locally rich in organic material.
Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
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the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
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Then the ridges on which they planted maize, beans, cassava, and sorghum, and which they find necessary to drain off the too abundant moisture of the rains, still remain unlevelled to attest the industry of the former inhabitants; the soil being clayey, resists for a long time the influence of the weather.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
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Soils are mostly gray to black Vertisols, developed from clayey alluvium of overbank or slack-water deposits.
Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)
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The bush lands go to clearly clayey-sandy soil in the xerophilous bush or scrublands, passing through intermediate forms in the briars.
Paraguana xeric scrub
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Soils that contain a lot of clay are called clayey soils.
4.1 What is soil?
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The clay-soil class of fulgurite, recently discovered in the eastern gold fields of Western Australia, was described as subaerial irregular masses of black glass hosted by clayey soil.
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The plants should be laid down in rows of five or six inches distant from each other, in a soil moderately damp, of an aluminous or clayey nature, and free to a great extent of the more soluble alkalies, potash and soda, as these, by absorption, may destroy the coloring matter of the plant, and so diminish its value as
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, o
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But there was no rest in any part; the canoe descended deeper and deeper into the gulley, through which the river flows between high clayey banks, as the water subsided, and with the glowing sun overhead we felt at midday as if in a furnace.
Weatherwatch: heat and mosquitoes in the Amazon
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On poorly drained, clayey soils with hardpans that were derived from argillite, native vegetation is a mosaic of red maple, swamp hardwoods, and mixed oaks, including pin oak.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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The beige-to-ochre tropical ferruginous soil displays in its first horizons a sandy texture at slope bottom, and is sandy-clayey on the remainder.
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The clayey soils of the region are difficult to work.
