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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gault \Gault\, n. [Cf. Norw. gald hard ground, Icel. gald hard snow.] (Geol.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
Wiktionary
n. A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.
Wikipedia
Gault is a rock formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep-water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period (Upper and Middle Albian). It is well exposed in the coastal cliffs at Copt Point in Folkestone, Kent, England, where it overlays the Lower Greensand formation, and is found in exposure on the south side of the North Downs and the north side of the South Downs. It is also to be found beneath the scarp of the Berkshire Downs, in the Vale of White Horse, in Oxfordshire, England, and on the Isle of Wight where it is known as Blue Slipper. Gault underlies the chalk beneath the London Basin, generally overlying eroded rocks of Jurassic and Devonian age; lower gault is present only below the outer parts of the basin and is absent under central London.
The clay has been used in several locations for making bricks, notably near Dunton Green and Wye in Kent.
Gault often contains numerous phosphatic nodules, some thought to be coprolites, and may also contain sand as well as small grains of the mineral glauconite. Crystals of the mineral selenite are fairly common in places, as are nodules of pyrite.
Gault yields abundant marine fossils, including ammonites (such as Hoplites, Hamites, Euhoplites, Anahoplites, and Dimorphoplites), belemnites (such as Neohibolites), bivalves (such as Birostrina and Pectinucula), gastropods (such as Anchura), solitary corals, fish remains (including shark teeth), scattered crinoid remains, and crustaceans (such as the crab Notopocorystes). Occasional fragments of fossil wood may also be found.
Gault is a clay formation around the south-east of England.
Gault may also refer to:
- 6478 Gault, an asteroid
- Gault Wood, a woodland in Cambridgeshire, England
- Gault Millau, a series of restaurant guides
- In re Gault, a 1967 US Supreme Court ruling establishing juveniles' rights in court
- Gault (surname), real and fictional people
Notable people with the surname Gault are:
In politics- Andrew Gault (1882–1958), Canadian army officer and MP in the UK parliament
- Daniel Gault (1842–1912), Oregon politician
- Matthew Hamilton Gault (1822–1887), Canadian politician
- David Gault (born 1976), Australian rules footballer
- Georges Gault (active early 20th century), French tennis player
- Michael Gault (born 1983), Northern Ireland football (soccer) player
- Mick Gault, English competitive shooter, nine times Commonwealth gold medallist
- Willie Gault (born 1960), American football player
- Henri Gault (1929–2000), co-founder of Gault Millau restaurant guides
- John Gault, American entrepreneur and inventor
- Stanley Gault (born 1926), CEO of Rubbermaid
- Thomas Gault (1938–2015), New Zealand judge
- William Campbell Gault (1910–1995), American novelist
- Lucy Gault, principal character in William Trevor's novel The Story of Lucy Gault
- Captain Gault, an English sea captain in stories by William Hope Hodgson
- Captain Gault, one of the Characters of Lost
Usage examples of "gault".
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Widow Gault said as she swept into the house like a barquentine at full sail.
William Campbell Gault epitomised the professional practitioner of the detective and suspense genre through the middle years of the twentieth century.
She was propped up in the chair where Gault had left her, and I wondered about the poor farmer who had made the mistake of opening the bowling bag he had found on his land.
But I think to sit in the same room with the Gaults of the world would poison my soul.
I could not even be sure the Gaults would see me because I had not called.
I waited at my wooden table for iced tea and worried that no one who worked here could communicate to me where the Gaults lived.
For every foot of line Dennis Gault gained, the giant bass would reclaim two.
Long before he had collected any evidence against Dickie Lockhart, Dennis Gault had proposed a monitoring program to deter cheating in the big-money tournaments.
Then Carrie tells Gault and he orchestrates another one of his impetuous nightmares.
Gault, the psychopathic son of a wealthy pecan plantation owner in Georgia, derived intense pleasure from leaving evidence that seemed to make no sense.
Blood spilled on the pajama top as Gault pulled the garbage bag over the sheriff's head and tied it with a shoelace that came from a running shoe in the closet.
The subway station was very close to Cherry Hill, and I wondered if Gault might have left the park and come here.