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  • In geology, clay-with-flints is the name given by William Whitaker in 1861 to a peculiar deposit of stiff red, brown, or yellow clay containing unworn...
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    Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk...
    23 KB (2,622 words) - 14:24, 23 October 2024
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    759 °F). Fire clays range from flint clays to plastic fire clays, but there are semi-flint and semi-plastic fire clays as well. Fire clays consist of natural...
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    North Downs (category Articles with short description)
    period. Clay-with-Flints, a sandy clay with many flints is found on higher ground. The origins of this layer are uncertain, however the clay is thought...
    30 KB (3,256 words) - 08:41, 9 March 2024
  • Seatearth (redirect from Flint clay)
    clay associated with coal beds is a smooth, flint-like refractory clay or mudstone composed predominantly of kaolin, called "flint clay". Flint clay breaks...
    9 KB (1,196 words) - 04:00, 7 December 2023
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    Cognac (category Articles with short description)
    hectares; 10,300 acres) The smallest cru. This denomination's soil contains clay and flint stones resulting from the decomposition of limestone. Fins Bois (34...
    21 KB (2,200 words) - 21:42, 31 October 2024
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    Pilgrims' Way (category Articles with short description)
    advantage of the contours, avoided the sticky clay of the land below but also the thinner, overlying "clay with flints" of the summits. In places a coexisting...
    14 KB (1,580 words) - 13:07, 4 June 2024
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    Pouilly-Fumé (category Articles with short description)
    and flint clay. The climate is temperate with a slight tendency to continental. The Nièvre vineyard is spread over 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres), with 120...
    8 KB (789 words) - 14:18, 3 July 2024
  • decalcification and cryoturbation of the underlying bedrock. Referred to as the Clay-with-flints Formation, the deposit also contains sand and silt in places. It varies...
    16 KB (2,049 words) - 07:43, 29 June 2023
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    Gardner Flint Minshew II (born May 16, 1996) is an American professional football quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League...
    110 KB (8,736 words) - 22:51, 4 November 2024
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    behind a clay soil with abundant chert gravel. Most of the hilltops in the region are capped with this chert gravel. The highest point in the Flint Hills...
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    Box Hill, Surrey (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    "The origin of the Clay-with-flints: the missing link". Geoscience in South-West England. 12: 153–161. Anon. "Clay-with Flints formation". The BGS Lexicon...
    123 KB (12,010 words) - 17:02, 3 November 2024
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    Jasperware (category Articles with short description)
    19th-century analysis it was approximately: 57% barium sulphate, 29% ball clay, 10% flint, 4% barium carbonate. Barium sulphate ("cawk" or "heavy-spar") was...
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  • Misanthrope led Clay to the United States, where he also played this role on Broadway in 1975. On the West End stage, Clay was Maurice in Flint (Criterion...
    14 KB (1,027 words) - 23:12, 13 August 2024
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    Falmer (category Articles with short description)
    a scatter of sarsen debris, fossils, yellowed flints that are characteristic of hilltop clay-with-flint, as well as Romano-British pottery to be found...
    34 KB (3,879 words) - 20:12, 3 November 2024
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    Ditchling (category Articles with short description)
    another signifier of clay-with-flint, is also at the top of the slope top with the tormentil flower. In spring the hillside is tinted with early purple orchids...
    37 KB (4,254 words) - 04:07, 15 August 2024
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    Vottem (category Articles with short description)
    loess Tertiary sands (Oligocene) Clay with flint Maastrichtian chalk (Cretaceous) – makes up the Hesbaye aquifer Herve clay or smectite Sandstone, schists...
    7 KB (853 words) - 03:48, 26 January 2024
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    Geology of Hertfordshire (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    some distance from the nearest land. The chalk is often covered by a clay-with-flints deposit, which is formed of the weathered remnants of Cenozoic rocks...
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    Chert (redirect from Chert and Flint)
    silica. Most cherts are nearly pure silica, with less than 5% other minerals (mostly calcite, dolomite, clay minerals, hematite, and organic matter.) However...
    35 KB (4,216 words) - 13:16, 22 October 2024
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    Striped flint (sometimes called banded flint) is a version of flint, with a more or less regular system of concentric dark and pale stripes, noted to...
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