adobe clay

The chinks between the walls had not been filled with adobe clay, and he could see out on three sides.

That adobe clay is like rock, which is why I settled for a ready-made hole.

It grows in the adobe clay soils of the foothills and low mountains in the area.

It stands on the powerful platform, the top part of which has nine lines of pahsa (adobe clay).

It prefers heavy adobe clay soils.

There are a few different types of adobe clay present at the site, and are sometime mixed together in the construction of walls and rooms.

This ultimately resulted in a sanitation crisis with most of the county depending on septic systems, often inefficient due to the area's heavy adobe clay soil.

The adobe clay substrate is easily broken and eroded because it is bare and contains few plant roots to hold it together.

The clay-loving wild buckwheat is known only from the adobe clay hills and flats near Delta and Montrose, Colorado.

He spilled too much air at the last minute and hit the ground too hard, falling over his kill and crashing face-first into the hard-baked adobe clay.

On the other hand, Tagaytay sandy loam is friable and granular with considerable amount of volcanic sand and underlain by adobe clay.

A mixture of sand and fine brown adobe clays and gray caliche, it had the texture, viscosity, and crippling powers of a tar pit.

It grows in moist areas in chaparral and grassland habitat, such as vernal pools, in heavy soils such as adobe clay.

The spring rain was falling, mild here only a few kilometers outside Sparta City; it carried a smell of wet adobe clay through the slit of open window.

This method is commonly used to create monolithic slabs for house construction in locations where expansive soils (such as adobe clay) create problems for the typical perimeter foundation.

The culture had a distinctive style of adobe clay architecture but shared artistic styles and religious symbols with the later Chavin culture which arose in the same area at a later date.

He followed Hogg down the bank, which sloped because wind had recently undercut the lip and dumped it as a scree of pebbles and adobe clay onto the base of the ravine.

While rice is not a major part of California's agricultural economy, it is the main crop here in Butte, Colusa and Sutter counties, where the adobe clay soil permits little water to percolate down.