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marls

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plural of marl

as in sediments

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Finer clays, silts and coarser sands would all have been deposited by different processes.

— Geoff Emberling, The Conversation, 19 May 2026
These silts were left behind when ancient river channels filled up or when floodwaters slowed down and gently dropped tiny particles.

— Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025

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Plenty of my friends worked there loading clays; nothing like working in a box in the middle of August, with the sun beating down on a barren landscape, just make gas money and some Friday night jingle.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Plus, the addition of colored clays, according to the brand, helps mask uneven skin tone and discoloration.

— Alyssa Morin, InStyle, 11 July 2026

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The past is not so much foreign as free, free to anyone who is willing to do the work, to enter the past with a spirit of curiosity and a willingness to conjure a living world out of the detritus that history leaves behind.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
Still, even with Ellison’s $111 billion WBD takeover plan under threat from a state attorneys general antitrust suit, $4 million and change is sofa detritus to the son of Larry Ellison.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026

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