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sandstone|ˈsændstəʊn|
[f. sand n.2 + stone n.]
A rock composed of consolidated sand. Old and New Red Sandstone: two series of British rocks lying respectively below and above the carboniferous.
1668Charleton Onomast. 241 Saxum Arenarium, Sand⁓stone. 1761A. Catcott Deluge iii. (1768) 249 A red Sand-stone. 1820Fosbrooke in Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit. & Arts IX. xvii. 45 Old red sandstone. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 263 Fair Island, said to be composed of sandstone with high perpendicular cliffs. 1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. xi. (ed. 2) 235 We enter on a district of New Red Sandstone. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. iv. 261 There the ancient Arrow-maker Made his arrow-heads of sandstone. 1855J. Phillips Man. Geol. 65 Sandstones are essentially littoral and shallow sea formations. 1879Hare B'ness Bunsen II. viii. 437 Low round-headed arches of red sandstone.
attrib.1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 358 Sandstone Porphyry. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 287 A sandstone quarry. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 127 Sandstone-schist. |