marlacious

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1. geographyContaining large quantities of marl.

   Marlacious shales, limestones, and clays contain enough marl to give them some of its characteristics.

   1956, Robert William Abbett, American civil engineering practice - Volume 1, page 7-25

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   In the Perigord, the structure of Upper Cretaceous limestones is highly variable according to temporal facies, alternating from dolomitic to marlacious (Laville 1973).

   1985, Randall White, BAR International Series - Issues 253-254, →ISBN, page 31

   There is a real figurative homogeneity in the statuettes, even when fabricated from diverse raw materials (ivory and marlacious limestone for the Kostenki group).

   1993, Heidi Knecht, Anne Pike-Tay, Randall Keith White, Before Lascaux: The Complex Record of the Early Upper Paleolithic

   A new emotional wave splashed her—a wave called sinking through marlacious earth and discovery of coarse-grained pain in the rocks of the heart.

   2014, Vlasta Bartolić Vuk, Blue Photons of Zagreb, →ISBN