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n. A Mississippi mud pie.
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Mud cake can refer to:
- Mississippi mud pie, a type of dessert.
- Kladdkaka, a chocolate mud cake eaten in Sweden.
- Geophagy, the practice of eating soil-like substances.
It also doubles as a general synonym of mudpie, which has several meanings.
Mud cake (also mudcake) is the layer of particulates from drill mud coating (caking) the inside of a borehole after the suspension medium has seeped through a porous geological formation. Similar to filter cake.
Mud cake provides a physical barrier to prevent further penetration and loss of drilling fluid, as well a later loss of produced fluids, into a permeable formation.
Usage examples of "mud cake".
It was stiff so wet that Sean scooped up a handful of the dirt and molded it into a ball like a child's mud cake.
Sornnn dug into a pocket and slipped a handmade pellet, black as mud cake, into the Fleet-Admiral's mouth.
It was a mass of caked and dried mud, shaved off clean where it had struck the borders of the Chrono-funnel, and on the mud cake were fourteen eggs about the size of duck eggs.