Monro and I examined very accurately, and by their very black colour we concluded they had been immersed in the marl for an immense time.
All mines and minerals, limestone and stone quarries, marl and clay, in his lands, with full power to work the same.
Well, they let me take a cutting in hardmarl down at Throatisfield Junction.
There is little of the sandstone cap in this area, and the logs lie in the blue-gray marl formation.
As the support was plucked from about them, they left their sleeping places in the sandstone and marl and rolled to the levels below.
Illustration: Courtesy National Park Service They leave their sleeping places in the sides of the marl hills and roll to levels below.
Miles and more miles of blue-gray mounds, varying in size, formed of the crumbling marlhave been beaten and blown into a semblance of numberless haystacks.
This palagonite-marl formation is 20 or 30 feet in thickness.
The marl is in part composed of much finer detritus of the same minerals.
Unlike the marl above, it does not effervesce with an acid; and appears as a mass of compacted minute fragments of basic glass converted into palagonite, which is seemingly non-vacuolar, and containing about 15 per cent.
In the Alps, at St. Gothard, calcareous marl is likewise changed from granite into mica slate, and then transformed into gneiss.
Phosphatic nodules occur also in the Chloritic Marlof the Isle of Wight and Dorsetshire, and at Wroughton, near Swindon.
The Chloritic Marl in the Wealden district furnishes much phosphatic material, which has been extensively worked at Froyle.
It was mostly sandstone for the upper strata, with narrow streaks of marland chalk.
At first occur broken limestone hills, as previous to Mizdah; but when we approach the plateau the aspect of the hills changes, and they are composed chiefly of variegated marl mixed with gypsum, and with a covering of limestone.
The range of lofty marl hills, over which the sun rises for Ghât, is still seen stretching northwards and southwards.
Where the shore shelved off gradually and was composed of marl or sand, the piles could be easily driven, and could hold their place firmly.
A deposit of marl stretches along nearly the whole of its shores and of tolerable breadth.
Blue clay appears in the lowest parts of the basin, and forms the level parts of the plain, with concretions of marl in thin layers.
The next morning the Crackanthorpe met at the Marl Pits.
At the top of the steep hill leading to the Marl Pits, that favourite haunt of "the stinkin' Middleshire phocks," lo and behold!
When a perfect white was required, a kind of white potters-clay or marl was employed; and the closer it adhered to the cloth, and the less easily it could be rubbed out, it was so much the better.
But from the purposes to which they were applied, we can with certainty conclude that they must have been partly of the nature of marl and partly of the nature of soapstone.
The waters which rise from springs passing through marl or limestone are replete with calcareous earth, and when thrown over morasses they deposit this earth and incrust or consolidate the morass.
In other places a calcareous matter cements the crystals together; and in other places the siliceous crystals lie in loose strata under the marl in the form of white sand; as at Normington about a mile from Derby.
In many rocks of siliceous sand the particles retain their angular form, and in some beds of loose sand, of which there is one of considerable purity a few yards beneath the marl at Normington about a mile south of Derby.
The grounds were certainly quaint; spaces for four white marl courts had been cleared, hewn out of the solid jungle which walled them in with a noble living growth of live oak, cedar, magnolia, and palmetto.
My monologue in praise of you became a triangular discussion; and all the while the pony was cutting up the marl drive with impatience, and Shiela never stirred.
The safer plan is, to make several small annual applications of both marl, and vegetable matter, continuing this until a hundred and fifty bushels of lime, or two hundred and fifty, or three hundred bushels of marl have been applied.
Marl has been found to be the one specific fertilizer for the Peanut plant--better than any other form of lime; and the chief element of value inmarl has been shown to be the carbonate of lime.
Generally, fifty bushels of lime, or one hundred and fifty bushels of marl is a safe application, but if the soil is quite thin, and contains but little vegetable mould, more than this at one time would be attended with risk.
The quantity of lime or marl to use at one application depends very much on the nature of the soil and the amount of vegetable matter it contains.
Land will bear large quantities of marl with perfect safety, if kept well stocked with some vegetable matter to subdue its caustic effects.
The bank flora of the Thames is nearly all the same from Oxford to Hampton Court, made up of some score of very fine and striking flowers that grow from foot to crest on the wall of light marl that forms the bank.
The finer Triassic 'marls' are also admirable for terra-cotta work, the most famous deposit being the Etruria Marl Series in the Upper Coal Measures near Ruabon.
I judge that average Marl is worth 10 cents per bushel where Ashes may be had for 25.
Nearly all the plants at Monod are contained in three layers of marl separated by two of soft sandstone.
MARL SLATE bears the same relation to marlwhich shale bears to clay, being a calcareous shale.
This clay rests immediately on the Paris gypsum, or that series of beds of gypsum and gypseous marl from which Cuvier first obtained several species of Palaeotherium and other extinct mammalia.
Below this is an indigo- blue marl, like that at the bottom of the higher quarry, resting on yellow marl ascertained to be at least thirty feet thick.
In the northern part of the Isle of Wight formations of marl and limestone, more than 50 feet thick occur, in which the shells are of extinct species.
It has been applied to substances in which there is no lime; as, to that red loam usually called red marl in certain parts of England.
Agriculturists were in the habit of calling any soil a marl which, like true marl, fell to pieces readily on exposure to the air.
The Maltese Islands consist largely of Tertiary Limestone, with somewhat variable beds of Crystalline Sandstone, Greensand and Marl or Blue Clay.
As mollusca of this kind thrive best in open stretches of clear water, the sites of the marl deposits must have been shallow lakes and open pools.
In other countries, and especially in Germany, many different kinds of marl and of marl-slate are described.
In the Chalk of the south-east of England nodules of marcasite with a fibrous radiated structure are abundant, and in the Chalk Marl between Dover and Folkestone fine twinned groups of "spear pyrites" are common.
We first descended the river bank and, visited the excavation in the marl bluff, known as Cornwallis's Cave.
Around these are strewn fragments of the stone marl of the old church wall, beautifully crystallized, and indurated by exposure.
Defn: A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.
Defn: To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.
Marl changes the character of the heath soil; with manure to fertilize it there was no reason why it should not grow crops--none, except the withering blast of the west wind.
While the canal digger and marlseeker were at work, there had been neighborhood meetings and talks at which Captain Dalgas did the talking.
At last accounts he had found marl in more than seventeen hundred places, and he is not done yet.
The heath is lime-poor; marl is lime in the exact form in which it best fits that sandy soil.
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