MARL, Type of Soil

or bog lime, soil, essentially clay mixed with carbonate of lime, highly valued as a dressing or fertilizer. It crumbles rapidly and easily. Marl in which the lime is in the form of invertebrate shells is called shell marl. The term is loosely used for a variety of soils, some of which are low in lime content, e.g., the greensand marl of New Jersey. Marling of soil tends to lighten it, correct acidity, and promote nitrification.

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Seeing beneath the Soil: Prospecting Methods in Archaeology
Book by Anthony Clark; Routledge, 2000
...English. Beneath the soil are hidden in profusion vestiges of these and much older...Neolithic monument of a type known as a henge, a...Eric Foster); the SCM soil conductivity meter...an infra-red detector of the type used in thermal mapping...
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Soils and Environment
Book by S. Ellis, A. Mellor; Routledge, 1995
...factors such as nutrient type and availability, water...1.2 APPROACHES TO SOIL-ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY The importance of soils in the environment...depending on the time of sample collection, soil type and environmental conditions...
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Chambers's Technical Dictionary
Book by C. F. Tweney, L. E. C. Hughes; Macmillan, 1958
Subjects: Technology--Dictionaries
...separately and superimposed when setting up the type are called floating accents. accentuation...High-lights or high contrasts in the composition of a photographic picture. acceptor...San. Eng. . A screwed plug provided in soil, waste, and drain pipes at bends and junctions...
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Man's Physical World
Book by Joseph E. Van Riper; McGraw-Hill, 1962
Subjects: Physical Geography
...BENNETT-- Soil Conservation...CRESSEY-- Land of the 500 Million...Roman, a type face originally...The Great Soil Groups of the World...differing in the type of features...also, the soil becomes deeper...time scale of hundreds or...number and type of larger...
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Aerogeology
Book by Horst F. Von Bandat; Gulf Pub. Co., 1962
Subjects: Aerial Photography In Geology, Photographic Interpretation
...of temperature, rainfall and soil; tectonic and lithologic response...IV -- MORPHOLOGIC EXPRESSION OF ROCK TYPES...residual clay. Lime stone, marl, dolomite. Sinkholes. Selective...Sedimentation; type of structures including anti...
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"Mineral Productions of Every Kind": Geological Observations in the Lewis and Clark Journals and the Role of Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society in the Geological Mentoring of Meriwether Lewis
Journal article by John W. Jengo; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 94, 2004
Subjects: American Philosophical Society, American history, Clark, William (1770-1838), Expeditions, Explorers, Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809), Mineralogy, Minerals
...identifying this rock type on the outbound journey...Perhaps its an indication of Lewiss more extensive...extent of white clay Marl or Chalk. (Clark, August...Bighorn Rivers: the Soil of the entire bottom between...noting the quantity and type of suspended sediment...
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Tramways for Rural France
Journal article by Richard H. Turner; The Journal of Transport History, Vol. 20, 1999
...other tramways. It was metre-gauge, used the same type of rolling stock and was operated by the TLC to the...was greatly in need of fertiliser in the form of marl and lime to improve the soil. The Beauce required more outlets for the export...
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Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-century France: the Landscapes of Theodore Rousseau
Journal article by Liana Vardi; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Art history, France, Nonfiction, Painting, Rousseau, Theodore, Thomas, Greg M, Visual artists
...Silverman begins by considering van Goghs interest in making La berceuse resemble "a chromolithograph from a cheap shop." This type of aim rings true for many avant-gardists absorbed in the appeal of the popular, but van Gogh claimed that such popular prints...
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At the Confluence: Oregon's Instream Water Rights Law in Theory and Practice
Journal article by Robert David Pilz; Environmental Law, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Streamflow--Protection and preservation, Water rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Water use--Laws, regulations and rules
...RANCH PROFILE, supra note 186, at 1. The parties called this surrendering of late season water a "partial season diminishment" rather than an outright abandonment. Paulus E-marl, supra note 123. (190) OWRD has statutory authority to withdraw waters...
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Geomorphic and Archaeological Landscapes of the Sigatoka Dune Site, Viti Levu, Fiji: Interdisciplinary Investigations
Journal article by William R. Dickinson, David V. Burley, Patrick D. Nunn, Atholl Anderson, Geoffrey Hope, Antoine De Brian, Christine Burke, Sepeti Matararaba; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 37, 1998
Subjects: Fiji--Historic sites, Human settlements--Environmental aspects
...blocked by bluffs of limestone and marl of the Pliocene Cuvu Formation (Houtz...Level 3. Each has a well-developed B soil horizon, stained by iron oxides, approximately...modern dune field, and represents the type of setting inferred for the cultural...
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In Defense of Terroir
Magazine article by Roger Scruton; The American Spectator, Vol. 40, May 2007
Subjects: Poetry, Wines
...the physical mix of limestone, marl, clay, and humus. I mean the soil as Jean Giono, Giovanni Verga...Lawrence would describe it; nurse of passions, stage of dramas, and...of a place, but as a geological type. When I tasted that fatal glass...


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Marl , Type of Soil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARL , type of soil or bog lime, soil, essentially clay mixed with carbonate of lime, highly valued...rapidly and easily. Marl in which the lime...the greensand marl of New Jersey. Marling of soil tends to lighten...


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