March 10, 2010, 06:31 AM
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Diamond
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Las Vegas, USA
Posts: 7,863
Native Language: Castellano
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Originally Posted by Ambarina
Barro is definitely thicker than Lodo, like Rusty said. If there's a flood, the sediment left in the streets and houses is lodo which as it dries turns into barro.
Barro would be the equivalent generic word for mud.
A potter works with barro or arcilla a makes "vasijas de barro"
Fango is a mixture of earth, stagnant/still water, algae, etc. i.e. disgusting smelly, slippery stuff.
Cieno/limo is the silt at the bottom of a lake or river bed.
Limo can also be found in water treatment plants.
Arcilla is clay. Suelo arcilloso would be clay soil, which is what I've got in my garden.
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In Chile we have white arcilla and red arcilla, the red one we call it "greda"
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