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Shoaly

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Shoal´y
a.1.Full of shoals, or shallow places.
The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground.
- Dryden.
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Adj.1.shoaly - full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"
reefy, shelfy, shelvy
shallow - lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"
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[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] For a long time it was supposed that in a southerly, offshore direction the shoaly limestones and lagoonal dolostones of the Jaagarahu and Muhu formations were replaced by the nodular, biomicritic, and argillaceous limestones of the Sorve Formation (Aaloe 1970).
Description of the type section, cyclicity, and correlation of the ... by Nestor, Heldur; Einasto, Rein; Nestor, Viiu; Marss, Tiiu; Viira, Viive / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
 
 
 
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