Sentence examples for chalk clay from inspiring English sources

Widespread deposition of chalk, clay, black shales, and marl occurred.

Among the minerals found are basalt, limestone, chalk, clay, salt, and shale, and there is some iron ore, bauxite, and coal.

Still, on a walk through the vineyards here, above the crenellated walls of the medieval castle, you can see where chalk, clay or alluvial soils yield to dark, volcanic basalt and tufa.

A large percentage (66%) of the county comprises either chalk, clay or mixed sand and gravels.

Iron-deficient people may be tempted to chow down on chalk, clay, dirt and paper.

The only mineral worked at the present time is gravel for aggregate, although chalk, brick clay (Ampthill and Kimmeridge clays), phosphate (from Woburn Sands, Gault and Cambridge Greensand), sand and gravel, and peat have been worked on a small scale in the past".

The pigment employed is usually a chalk or clay containing some form of iron oxide.

With poor sandy soils overlying chalk or clay, landscape features include heathland vegetation, small lakes, or meres, whose water level is variable, and plantations of trees.

Soils vary wildly, from chalk to clay, acid to alkaline; there are more than 1,800 different types in the UK alone.

This is the classic downs habitat – fragile chalk and clay, herb-rich downland meadows home to poppies and other wild flowers and butterflies, wooded hillsides and expanses of heathland with skylarks launching themselves upwards, bursting with song.

And though Letraset gave more vowels than consonants on each sheet, we always ran out of As; we drew a lot of maps and country names are full of them.As for tinted areas in the artwork (such as the areas of chalk and clay in the diagram above), they were a combination of adhesive-backed sheets of pre-printed dots and lines, and a plastic mask on film (the blue areas on the artwork).