Argil

The valley-sides of dark trap were striped with white veins of heat-altered argil; the sole with black magnetic sand; and patches of the bed were buttercup-yellow with the Handán (dandelion), the ❋ Unknown (2003)

Of flint or silex, lime or calcareous earth, and clay or argil, in various degrees of combination, the greatest parts of the mountains and plains, and the whole of what we commonly understand by soil, mould, earth, &c. are composed. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The valley-sides of dark trap were striped with white veins of heat-altered argil; the sole with black magnetic sand; and patches of the bed were buttercup-yellow with the Handán ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

So they toiled up the stiff and slippery slope, and found a scatter of crate-huts crowning a bald head of yellow argil. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

A table in the centre exhibited curiosities of the rarest description: the shell of a Cauchoise cap, two argil urns, medals, and a phial of opaline glass. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

"In 1715," relates Dom Martin, "one Sieur Heribel exhumed in the vicinity of Bayeux, several argil vases full of bones, and concluded (in accordance with tradition and authorities which had disappeared) that this place, a necropolis, was the Mount Faunus in which the Golden Calf is buried." ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

It was no slight task, before pasting on the labels, to know the names of the rocks; the variety of colours and of grain made them confuse argil and marl, granite and gneiss, quartz and limestone. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

So rich is the dark-colored tenacious argil of the ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

In the argil are imbedded small crystals of hornblende, or of mica, and thin pieces of quartz at most two lines square. ❋ Unknown (1822)

Near the edge of the valley there lie scattered on the sand considerable portions of flinty slate; and amid the common clay, which forms the basis of the soil, are perpendicular layers of a lamellated brown argil, assuming, as it were, the slaty structure. ❋ Michael Russell (1814)

And that the uniformity of the mixture of the original earths, as of lime, argil, silex, magnesia, and barytes, which they contain, was owing to their boiling together a longer or shorter time before their elevation into mountains. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Mica slate has still more argil in it, and decomposes more rapidly. ❋ Unknown (1771)

“winter-brooks,” the red porphyritic trap, heat-altered argil, easily distinguished by its fracture from the syenites of the same hue, appeared to be iron-clad, coated with a thin crust of shiny black or brown peroxide (?). ❋ Unknown (2003)

"winter-brooks," the red porphyritic trap, heat-altered argil, easily distinguished by its fracture from the syenites of the same hue, appeared to be iron-clad, coated with a thin crust of shiny black or brown peroxide (?). ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)