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black mud
noun
Reduced mud found below the surface of sediments in lakes and rivers, the blackness of which is caused by the occurrence of metal sulphides.
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It could dissolve at any moment, carrying you away into a nether world of black mud.
Then she noticed the boys were covered with sticky black mud.
Papa's hands are very dirty, the gutters around his nails swollen with black mud.
It's just a stinking black mud laid down on the floor of the ocean.
The black mud of the taro patches was used to stain wood and stone carvings.
The thick oozy black mud behind the Victoria Park posts never looked more inviting.
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The oldest (approximately 80-million-year-old black muds and 67-million-year-old siliceous oozes) document that at least part of the Arctic Ocean was relatively warm and biologically productive prior to 40 million years ago.
At water depths below 10 m, the magnetic susceptibility and anhysteretic remanent magnetization (ARM) of high organic content greenish-black mud decreased considerably with increasing water depth.
In a memoir of his 1930s Potteries childhood, The Vanished Landscape, historian Paul Johnson describes his father taking him to see the Sytch in Burslem, an immense stretch of ground composed of clay, black water, mud, industrial detritus and "fumigerous furnaces belching forth fire, ashes and smoke".
Dark mud crawling up the reed stalks, black bottomed, waiting for the next rain.
Six samples of low-Z engineering materials (cement-black, clay, red-mud, lime-stone, cement-white and plaster-of-paris) have been selected for investigating the effect of ASC on μ-measurements at three γ-ray energies (661.66, 1173.24, 1332.50 keV).
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