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marl

/mahrl/US // mɑrl //UK // (mɑːl) //

泥灰岩,沼泽地,泥煤,沼泽

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
    • : Archaic. earth.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fertilize with marl.

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Examples

  • The flint hatchets found at St. Acheul, France, were obtained from a gravel bed which lay below twelve feet of sand and marl.

  • It was a bluff or butte of limestone which innumerable years had converted into marl, and for the most part into earth.

  • Half an hour later we crossed the tracks at Verbena and turned into a broad marl road.

  • Why do we not then persuade husbandmen that they should not till land, help it with marl, lime, and compost?

  • A deposit of marl stretches along nearly the whole of its shores and of tolerable breadth.