marlstone
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
marlstone (countable and uncountable, plural marlstones)
- (geology) Marl when hardened into stone.
- 1961 July, C. P. Walker, P. H. V. Banyard, “Leicester's Belgrave Road branch lives another year”, in Trains Illustrated, page 414:
- The steady climb eastwards has lifted us from the Soar Valley at Leicester into the marlstone (or ironstone) country of the Middle Lias which, at this point, forms a ridge of high ground over 700ft above sea level, […]
Translations edit
hardened marl
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References edit
- “marlstone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.