Calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and silt.
1Those of the Tidewater section are summed up in its marls.
2The sandstone and marls are immensely older than the boulder-clay.
3There are several different-colored marls, each possessing different qualities.
4The dark red, or black astringent wines, are produced upon the white marls and cretaceous limestone.
5The gypsiferous and saliferous marls of Shellata, Suk Ahras and Ain Nussi have yielded Triassic fossils.
6Often these marls are richly colored and variegated.
7Red jasper is abundant in this locality, and is generally found in small pieces embedded in the marls.
8The Tuscan alabaster occurs in nodular masses, embedded in limestone, interstratified with marls of Miocene and Pliocene age.
9The most common are the red and the white, though there are grey, brown, blue, and yellow colored marls.
10Magnesia may replace lime to some extent in such marls, but the firing temperature must be higher when magnesia is present.
11The highest beds, consisting of quartzites, shales, marls and sandstones with the remains of fucoids, are found in the Jurjura and Shellata.
12From the same beds, and in marls alternating with the sands, remains of the elephant, rhinoceros, and other mammalia have been exhumed.
13But its rich red marls, wherever they come to the surface, are one of God's most precious gifts to this favoured land.
14These latter are often found in the Triassic fish-beds of Connecticut and New Jersey, and in the Cretaceous marls of the latter State.
15They seem to be for the most part made up of marls and limestones, with trap-dykes and other igneous matters here and there.
16This region appears to be entirely free from the limestones and marls which give to the Lower Platte its yellow and dirty color.