Suffix[edit] -al. of or pertaining to; adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also.
Remember: there is a difference between soil and dirt. Dirt is what you get on your clothes and hands while working in the soil. Soil is made up of elements that have been decomposing since the earth was created. Soil is composed of bedrock and mountain stones broken down over eons by wind and rain.
1 Clay is a sedimentary material made from bits of weathered rock that have combined with water. 2  Conglomerate rocks contain round river rocks surrounded by hardened sand or another type of sediment. 3  In swampy areas, plants die but they do not decay. 4  Instead, they turn into peat. The White Cliffs of Dover in England are made from the shells and remains of trillions of tiny animals that died more than 65 million years ago. 2  Clay is a sedimentary material made from bits of weathered rock that have combined with water.