limesand
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- (geology) A course sediment found in the seabed containing primarily ground up shells, sometimes used in agriculture as an acidity regulator.
- 1877, New Jersey. Legislature, Documents, page 122:
- This field had had on it about seventy loads of muck per acre, which alone did no good until an application of limesand was given.
- 1968, Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Transactions:
- The middle part is a limesand consisting of 15-25% recognisable shell fragments cemented by aragonite. In the whole rock there is almost no quartz. Nearer the shore the limesand is replaced by lime-mud, ...
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