The most important formations are the Cretaceous Chalk, exposed as the high ground in the north and west of the county, forming the Chiltern Hills and the younger Palaeocene, Reading Beds and Eocene, London Clay which occupy the remaining southern part.

Clay County is a county of the U. S. state of Alabama.

Named after the famous statesman Henry Clay, the county seat itself was named after his estate in Lexington, Kentucky called " Ashland ".

During the Desert Shield / Storm conflict, Clay County had more soldiers serving per capita than any other county in the United States.

Clay County is a county located in the U. S. state of Florida.

Clay County is a county located in the U. S. state of Illinois.

Clay County ( county code CY ) is a county located in North Central Kansas, in the Central United States.

Its county seat and most populous city is Clay Center.

Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Clay County has remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county.

* Clay Center, 4, 381 ( county seat )

Clay County is a county located in the U. S. state of Indiana.

Built in Classical Revival style of architecture, it is the only building in Clay County holding county government offices and records.

Clay County is a county located in the U. S. state of Minnesota.

Clay County is a county located in the U. S. state of Mississippi.

Clay County is a county located in Northwest Missouri in the United States.

The county was organized January 2, 1822 and named in honor of U. S. Representative Henry Clay from Kentucky, later member of the United States Senate and United States Secretary of State.

Clay County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nebraska.

Its county seat is Clay Center.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Clay County is represented by the prefix 30 ( it had the thirtieth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).

Clay County is a county located in the U. S. state of South Dakota.

Clay County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina.

In honor of Mr. Hayes, the then new county's seat was appointed Hayesville and the newly formed county was named in honor Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.

Hayesville, with a 2000 population of 297, is the only incorporated town in the county, the county seat, and center of economic activity for Clay County.

and occupies a small triangular-shaped section of which Randolph and Clay counties, together with the northern part of Tallapoosa and Chambers, form the principal portion.

Most parts of the territory are on the Opalinuston-Formation ( Opalinum Clay Formation ) of the Aalenian subdivision, which is named after Aalen.

" The directive comported with the view of General Lucius D. Clay and the Joint Chief of Staff over growing communist influence in Germany, as well as of the failure of the rest of the European economy to recover without the German industrial base on which it previously had been dependent.

" Clay Witt, a minister in the Metropolitan Community Church, explains how theologians and commentators like John Shelby Spong, George Edwards and Michael England interpret injunctions against certain sexual acts as being originally intended as a means of distinguishing religious worship between Abrahamic and the surrounding pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices: " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.

While the institute is best known for its Millennium Prize Problems, it carries out a wide range of activities, including a postdoctoral program ( ten Clay Research Fellows are supported each year ) and an annual summer school, the proceedings of which are published jointly with the American Mathematical Society.

Other cable cars to use grips were those of the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which later became part of the San Francisco cable car system.

Ages Ago, during the rehearsals for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan

Clay tablets unearthed at Harappa, which were carbon dated 3300-3200 BCE., contain trident shaped and plant like markings, and they are suggested as a possible earliest writings any where in the world, as opined by Dr. Richard Meadow of Harvard University and Director, Harappa Archeological Research Project.

One of the issues which divided the administration was protective tariffs, of which Henry Clay was a leading advocate.

Monroe was part of the American Colonization Society formed in 1816, which members included Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson.

It is sited on the slopes of a Corallian limestone hill within the Blackmore Vale, overlooking the flat Oxford Clay valley of the small River Cale, which drains into the Stour.

His father bought him a cheap printing press ; which, with the help of his younger brother Henry ( Harry ) Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close, he used to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, for which the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

Clay however moved to pass the Compromise of 1833, which met Southern complaints by a gradual reduction of the rates on imports to a maximum of twenty percent.

Clay and his Whig allies failed in repeated attempts to continue the Second Bank of the United States, which Jackson denounced as a monopoly and from which he abruptly removed all government deposits.

* In Life of Henry Clay, Carl Schurz notes that “ his fondness for card-playing, which, although in his early years he had given up games of chance, still led him to squander but too much time upon whist .”

Other famous problems on his list include the Poincaré conjecture, the P = NP problem, and the Navier-Stokes equations, all of which have been designated Millennium Prize Problems by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Henry Clay, unsuccessful candidate and Speaker of the House, despised Jackson, in part due to their fight for Western votes during the election, and he chose to support Adams, which led to him being elected President.

A few days after the election, Adams named Clay his Secretary of State, a position which at that time often led to the presidency.

Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850, due to the opposition of both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs.

On January 29, 1850, Whig Senator Henry Clay gave a speech which called for compromise on the issues dividing the Union.

Clay also opposed the Mexican-American War and the " Manifest Destiny " policy of Democrats, which cost him votes in the close 1844 election.