silty clay

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clay
noun[U]
uk
/kleɪ/us
/kleɪ/
thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked, used for making bricks ...
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The soil texture issiltyclayloam with 29, 47, and 24% sand, silt and clay respectively, and illite is the dominant clay mineral.
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The sequence is lithologically rather uniform and consists ofsiltyclay, fine-grained sand and clayey silt.
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Textures ranged from loamy sand over sandy loam on sandstone tosiltyclayover clay on shale.
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The dominant soil textures in the study area aresiltyclayandsiltyclayloam.
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In the core it consists of blue-greysiltyclay, becoming slightly more calcareous and silty upwards, containing a scatter of small (< 1 cm diameter) pyrite nodules.
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The soil texture of the experimental plots issiltyclayloam with an average of 8 % sand, 70 % silt, 22 % clay and a bulk density of 1300 kg/m3.
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Below the subsoil is a layer of mixed gravel andsiltyclayloam.
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Below this layer, there is a subsoil of yellowish-redsiltyclayloam.
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The neighbourhood is named for a type of soil, malmosiltyclayloam, common in the area.
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Black oak grows best on well drained,siltyclayto loam soils.
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Classifications are typically named for the primary constituent particle size or a combination of the most abundant particles sizes, e.g. sandy clay orsiltyclay.
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This is mostly cohesive soil (siltyclay) and silty sand, horizontally stratified.
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These depressions generally consist ofsiltyclayand caliche material.
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The texture of the soils ranged from silt loam tosiltyclayloam.
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The inner part of the dam is asiltyclaymaterial, while the outside is made of weathered shale.
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Soil textures range fromsiltyclayloam to sandy loam.
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The valley floor is covered with unconsolidated alluvial sediments that are mostly composed of clay, silt,siltyclayand clayey silt.
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The important soil types found in the basin are sand, loam, clay and their combinations such as sandy loam,siltyclayetc.
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