| 单词 | clay-with-flints |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclay-with-flints c. clay-with-flints, a mixture of stiff brown or reddish clay with angular flints, found overlying chalk, esp. in southern England; extended to various types of clayflint drift deposits. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > clay with flints clay-with-flints1861 1861 Hull & Whitaker Geol. Surv. Mem. Sheet. XIII. 55 Above the ‘clay with flints’ there is occasionally a loam or sandy clay. 1908 W. Johnson Folk Memory xi. 209 The junction of the Chalk and the overlying Clay-with-flints forms tortuous, tongue-like projections on the geological map. 1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. vii. 161 The clay-with-flints, strictly speaking a mass of rusty clay with fractured flints but in practice an omnibus term covering a variety of deposits of different types. < as lemmas |
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