They mark the site of a forest which existed there for a long time, since, besides the erect trunks of trees, some of them 2 and 3 feet in diameter, there is a vast accumulation of vegetable matter in the immediately overlying clays.
Torquay, believed to have been washed up by the waves of the sea out of the submerged mass of vegetable matter at the extremity of the valley in which Tor Abbey stands, is the best case I have seen.
Not only are leaves and branches of vegetable matter found, but fossils of reptiles, such as live on the land.
As has been before stated, the oxygen of the air is consumed by all processes of combustion, and in this we include the breathing of men and animals and the decay of vegetable matter, as well as the more active combustion arising from fires.
This indicates that the great bulk ofvegetable matter of which the coal formation is made up has been subjected to tremendous pressure during a long period of time.
It is a thing so universally admitted on all hands, that I shall take it for granted you are all perfectly convinced that coal has been nothing in the world but a great mass of vegetable matter.
The purpose of tillage is in no small degree to bring about disintegration and resulting exhaustion of vegetable matter.
Nature tries constantly to cure the ills of her soil through the addition of vegetable matter.
The caustic lime in a soil hastens decay of vegetable matter in a degree impossible to the limestone or marl.
Having lost a portion of its elementary constituents, it has become transformed into a species of carbon, impregnated with those bituminous substances which are the ordinary products of the slow decomposition of vegetable matter.
It consists of large trees with their branches imbedded horizontally in vegetable matter, containing kidney-shaped nodules of amber, or fossilised resin.
The fruits of dogwood, black alder, Virginia creeper, and blackberries are included in the small portion of vegetable matter eaten (Bent 1939).
Although a wide variety of vegetable matter is consumed, acorns from pin oak comprise a large portion of the winter diet.
But limestone simply powdered, marls, or chalks, do not thus act on vegetable matter; and hence the operation of quicklime and mild lime depends on principles altogether different.
Perhaps where vegetable matter was very abundant Eozoon did not thrive, or on the other hand the growth of Eozoon may have diminished the quantity of vegetable matter.
To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
Defn: That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter.
To keep up the supply of vegetable matter, grow one of these leguminous crops every two or three years, or oftener, and after they have died and dried on the surface, plow them into the soil.
The soil in the pecan orchard needs humus, vegetable matter; so does the soil in any other kind of orchard, and to obtain results it must be provided.
Exactly one-half his food supply consists of vegetable matter, chiefly wild berries, acorns, beechnuts, and the seeds of wild shrubs and weeds.
In either case, the same quantity ofvegetable matter will be produced, but the time within which it is obtained will be regulated by the supply of ammonia.
If the graphite of the Laurentian rocks was derived from vegetable matter, the further question arises, Was this vegetation of the land, or of the sea?
Iron is usually dissolved out and redeposited by acids produced in the decay of vegetable matter, as we see in the clay ironstones of the coal formation and in bog-iron ores.
Sterry Hunt, derived from the great beds of iron ore, which it is difficult to account for chemically except on the hypothesis of the decay in the air of great quantities of vegetable matter.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vegetable matter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
