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red clay

–noun Geology.
a brown to red, widely distributed deep-sea deposit consisting chiefly of microscopic particles and tinted red by iron oxides and manganese.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME


red-clay, adjective
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red clay

noun
clay whose redness results from iron oxide 
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