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Definition of Residual clay
1. Noun. The soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Residual Clay
Literary usage of Residual clay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1906)
"residual clay. It has been shown how rocks undergo certain chemical and mechanical
changes which form clay and soil, and where this clay is found directly ..."
2. Clays: Their Occurrence, Properties, and Uses, with Especial Reference to by Heinrich Ries (1906)
"Where the residual clay has been derived from a great mass of granite or other
clay-yielding rock, the deposit may form a mantle covering a considerable ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"But the upper three feet of the residual clay on the ridges has been converted
into a ... If a residual clay were to form, in the absence of vegetation, ..."
4. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"From its method of origin and position it is termed a residual clay. ...
Section showing passage of the fully-formed residual clay on the surface into the ..."
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