What is "loams"

Usage examples of "loams".

After laboring to clear the area of dead steel latticeworks and structural frames, the carcass of a transformer that had clung obstinately to its concrete base, and assorted scrap-metal undergrowth, he had prepared an area of the hydrocarbon soil below the cliff with nitrogenous loams collected from the stream bed, and planted the seed culture for the outside wall in a line ten paces out from the cliff base, curving inward at its ends to close off the frontage of a dry cave.

The pure clays require the addition of sand or loam, while the loams often need the addition of lime to flux and bind the earth.

Their seeds had been brought down by the river on a thousand annual floods, and they had taken root in the fertile loams that had themselves been transported by the restless waters.

He thought about King's Lynn and in his nostrils lingered the odour of the loams of the Matabele grassland.