Sentence examples for geophagy from inspiring English sources

But geophagy occurs in areas where the earth is not a useful source of minerals, and also in places where minerals can be more easily obtained from certain plants that are known to be rich in them.

Her book, published in 2011 and now out in paperback, is full of both anecdote and analysis and covers both the wide phenomenon of eating earth — geophagy, which could include everything from tasting a mud pie as a child, or parent, to a craving for kaolin-rich clay from one spot and one spot only — the need that Sam's store caters to.

Geophagy, for example, is a common behaviour in many parts of the world.