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Definition of Marlites
1. marlite [n] - See also: marlite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marlites
Literary usage of Marlites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Virginias, a Mining, Industrial & Scientific Journal, Devoted to the by Jedediah Hotchkiss (1880)
"The shales throughout the series have the texture of| marlites, ... Olive and
reddish sandstones, passing below into olive marlites, 100 feet. 2. ..."
2. A Text-book of Geology: Designed for Schools and Academies by James Dwight Dana (1864)
"The beds affording the saline waters consist of clayey beds or marlites, shale,
... The rocks of the Permian beds are mostly sandstones and marlites, ..."
3. A Text-book of Geology: Designed for Schools and Academies by James Dwight Dana (1866)
"The rocks of the Permian beds are mostly sandstones and marlites, with some impure
or magnesian limestones, and gypsum. They occur in North America west of ..."
4. Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Iowa: Embracing the Results by James Hall, Josiah Dwight Whitney (1858)
"Blue argillaceous marlites of the Geode bed ... 6 feet. The ash-colored sandy
layers of this bed represent the massive magnesian portion of the formation at ..."
5. Geological Studies: Or, Elements of Geology by Alexander Winchell (1886)
"The Salina Group consists, in Central New York, of tender, clayey marlites and
fragile clayey sandstones of red, gray, greenish, yellowish, ..."
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