Lexicographical Neighbors of Loams
Literary usage of Loams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"... Guilford, and Caswell counties and west to the middle parts of Davie, Yadkin,
and Rock- ingham counties are red and gray compact loams, sometimes loose, ..."
2. Report on the Valley Regions of Alabama: (Paleozoic Strata) by Henry McCalley, Geological Survey of Alabama (1897)
"These loams loams must cover over 2000 square miles of this region. They are made
up of (a) The "red lands" or the red to brown calcareous sandy clayey ..."
3. The Suburban Horticulturist, Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"loams.—Rich sandy loams consist of sand, clay, and more or less of ... Vegetation
commences some weeks earlier in sandy loams than in clayey loams, ..."
4. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk by Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (1804)
"DISTRICT OF VARIOUS loams. In passing through the county, and discriminating the
... Around Watton are various loams, some of them sandv; and some heavy, ..."
5. Annual Report by New Jersey Geological Survey, New Jersey State Geologist (1905)
"MOLDING loams. The molding loams, including under this term loamy sands also,
are more widespread in distribution and variable in origin than the core sands ..."
6. The Horticulturist; Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon, Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"loams.—Rich sandy loams consist of sand, clay, and more or less of ... Vegetation
commences some weeks earlier in sandy loams than in clayey loams, ..."
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