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  2. Sandpainting - Wikipedia

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    Sandpainting is the art of pouring coloured sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed or unfixed sand painting. Unfixed sand paintings have a long established cultural history in numerous social groupings around the globe, and are often temporary ...

  3. Sand - Wikipedia

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    Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of soil or soil type; i.e., a soil containing more than 85 percent sand-sized particles by mass. [2]

  4. Earth materials - Wikipedia

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    Other earth materials include soil blocks typically stabilized with a cement additive and produced with forms or compression. Rammed Earth consists of walls made from moist, sandy soil, or stabilized soil, which is tamped into form work. Walls are a minimum of 12″ thick. Soils should contain about 30% clay and 70% sand.

  5. Loam - Wikipedia

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    The soil's texture, especially its ability to retain nutrients and water, are crucial. [2] Loam soil is suitable for growing most plant varieties. Bricks made of loam, mud, sand, and water, with an added binding material such as rice husks or straw, have been used in construction since ancient times.

  6. HomeGoods - Wikipedia

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    HomeGoods is owned by TJX Companies and is a sister company to T.J. Maxx, Sierra Trading Post, and Marshalls.The size of each store varies by location. [2] [1] There are locations in the United States that combine both the HomeGoods and the T.J. Maxx or Marshalls store brands in one building.

  7. Gravel - Wikipedia

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    Gravel ( / ˈɡrævəl /) is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel occurs naturally on Earth as a result of sedimentary and erosive geological processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone . Gravel is classified by particle size range and includes size classes from granule - to boulder -sized fragments.

  8. Parent material - Wikipedia

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    Parent material is the underlying geological material (generally bedrock or a superficial or drift deposit) in which soil horizons form. Soils typically inherit a great deal of structure and minerals from their parent material, and, as such, are often classified based upon their contents of consolidated or unconsolidated mineral material that has undergone some degree of physical or chemical ...

  9. Fields of dreams: North Carolina grass farm sows success for ...

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    How this North Carolina grass goes from farm to field. The agronomy behind growing this kind of grass is predictably meticulous and complex. But the fundamental process of Carolina Green Corp’s ...