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Recent Examples of marlThe vines are planted in limestone, marl, and clay soils and are situated with eastern and southeastern exposures at altitudes of 750 to 1,000 feet so grapes mature perfectly with the right balance of sugars, acid, and minerality.—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2025 While Vigna La Delizia enjoys south-east exposure and has soils rich in calcareous marl and clay, Vigna La Villa faces due east and features silt, sand, and clay soils.—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025 The region’s soil mixture of marl, clayey limestone, marine sandstone, and rough clay draws out Glera’s creamy texture and fresh peach notes, the wine’s signature aromatic characteristic.—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 There are plenty of colors to choose from to suit all tastes, from practical grey marl to playful pink or festive plaid.—Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023 The coats are oversized, and roomy enough to accommodate hoodies or jumpers layered underneath. Consider this a forever buy, so stick to a neutral color palette like Beckham—think navy, black or gray marl.—Emma Spedding, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2023 There are riverine deposits of sand, silt and gravel, as well as outcroppings of limestone and marl.—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021 In 1998, outside of Fort Wayne, Indiana, a hydraulic excavator at Buesching’s Peat Moss & Mulch stripped back a layer of peat and struck bone in the underlying marl.—Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022 But fashions change, and most observers believe that the limestone and marl here is much better suited to chardonnay than pinot noir.—Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 6 June 2021
The diver's representative, Ian Costello, said the car was covered in salmon guts, silt and mussel shells.
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Becca Longmire,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
The workers were about nine miles inside the tunnel on Saturday morning when the roof collapsed after a rush of silt and water, according to local officials and news reports.
There is 130 years of heavy toxic sediment in the soil of the river.
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Courier-News,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
Over the course of seven years, scientists stationed at Camp Century drilled the first core of ice that captured the full thickness of the ice sheet — a depth of 4,560 feet (1,390 meters) — and included some sediment from the ground below.
Choose a planting location that is full sun to partial shade with loam, sand, or clay soil.
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Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
25 Mar. 2025
Ancient mosaics even turn up in the basements of restaurants like Pancrazio in the old Pompey’s Theater, near where Julius Caesar was stabbed, while the walls of some bars in Testaccio have glass windows to reveal layers of broken clay amphorae discarded in antiquity.
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Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
About 1 in 3 adults will have shingles at some point in their lives, and Acharya said that 10% to 20% of those cases will involve shingles of the eye.
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Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
In some ways, HPV is similar to the chickenpox virus, which can hide in nerve cells for decades before reactivating and causing a painful condition called shingles.
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