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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
• 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.
• the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated
• Soils are clayey and slightly permeable, with internal drainage, and easily compactible. Tikal National Park, Guatemala
• 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
• Here, the upper mudstone of the TST is erosively overlain by 3 m of bioturbated, clayey sandstone and mudstone.
• 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
• 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.
• The area has non-calcareous, brown loamy clayey soils, developed from calcareous marl.