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Definition of Red clay
1. Noun. Clay whose redness results from iron oxide.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Clay
Literary usage of Red clay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"~ì in the red clay along the groove a man's nailed ts had made. They were hot
and flushed. ... ys into the steep bank of red clay, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The red clay which occurs in all the deeper stretches of the ocean far from land,
and covers nearly half of the whole sea-floor, contains—in addition to ..."
3. Annual Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1901)
"148 " "153 " Whitish sand and clay mixed 153 '' " 167 red clay and sand, 167 " "
177 " Very coarse and fine sandy reddish clays alternating 177 " " 207 ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1875)
"We now recognize the ' grey ooze ' as an intermediate stage between the Globigerina
ooze and the red clay ; we •find that on one side, as it were, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"258 6 Conglomerate, with thin band of ironstone . 281 6 red clay 284 ... 299 0
Soft red clay 362 6 Very fine loamy red sandstone . ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... like that of the red clay, traceable to a volcanic source : — Wherever we have
pumice containing much magnetite, olivine, au;_'ite, or hornblende, ..."
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