marl

Converse of object

comprise: The Upper Coal Measures outcrop between Halesowen and West Bromwich and largely comprise marls, red sandy mudstones and grits.

Adjective modifier

• gray: The patchwork of scattered cornfields interspersed with the region's crumbling, gray marl ' badlands ' forms a splendid wildlife habitat.
• red: The rocks here are red marls, with bands of the mineral gypsum.
• calcareous: The skeletons of millions of aquatic animals, which lived and died in the lake, formed a layer of calcareous marl.
• Triassic: Upto 6 basaltic dikes intrude into these Triassic marls and mudstones.
• soft: Being regularly washed by wave action at every high tide, the softer marl is soon eroded away from the harder calcite fossils.
• Devonian: The Hereford fabrics would have needed tempering since the gravel found in them is not found naturally mixed with Devonian marl.

Modifies a noun

• pit: Ponds can be old surface quarries, chalk wells, lime pits or marl pits.
• lake: However, the largest numbers were recorded in marl lakes.
• band: A common feature of the Chalk sequence is the presence of marl bands.
• seam: Even in the Chalk of Southern England, many of the thin marl seams ( eg.
• clay: The topsoil is a loamy clay mix to a depth of around 16 " then its red marl clay.

Noun used with modifier

• chalk: Samphire Hoe is a new piece of England created from 4.9 million cubic meters of chalk marl dug to create the Channel Tunnel.
• brick: This rock is famous throughout Nottingham as a brick marl.
• lake: Biostratigraphy and palaeolimnology of late-glacial and holocene lake marls at Quidenham Mere, Norfolk G. L. Hyman, PET.