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单词 new red sandstone
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New Red Sandstonen.

Brit. /ˌnjuː rɛd ˈsan(d)stəʊn/, U.S. /ˌn(j)u ˌrɛd ˈsæn(d)ˌstoʊn/
Forms: also with lower-case initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: new adj., red adj., sandstone n.
Etymology: < new adj. + red adj. + sandstone n. Compare earlier Old Red Sandstone n.
A thick series of non-marine sedimentary rocks, chiefly soft red sandstones, representing the Permo-Triassic system in parts of Britain, north-west Europe, and North America. Cf. Old Red Sandstone n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > sandstone > others
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1818 W. Phillips Outl. Mineral. & Geol. (ed. 3) 71 Red Marle..is by some also termed the New Red Sandstone.
1829 A. Sedgwick in Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 121 The previous statements seem to show, that the system of the new red sandstone could not have been produced by any sudden and transitory agency.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 45 ‘The sand’ is a stratum of soft sandstone, frequently met with in sinking through the lower new red sandstone.
1855 J. W. Dawson Acadian Geol. i. 2 The Acadian provinces form a well-marked geological district, distinguished from all the neighbouring parts of America by the enormous and remarkable development within it of rocks of the Carboniferous and New Red Sandstone systems.
1904 C. Kingsley Glaucus (new ed.) 78 Every ledge of these flat new Red Sandstone rocks, if torn up with the crowbar, discloses in its cracks and crannies nests of strange forms.
1949 A. E. Trueman Geol. & Scenery Eng. & Wales xvii. 226 The sequence is exactly that which underlies the Vale of Gloucester, red marls of the New Red Sandstone followed by the limestones and clays of the Blue Lias.
1990 W. A. S. Sarjeant in K. Carpenter & P. J. Currie Dinosaur Systematics (1992) xxii. 307 Description of an extinct lacertilian reptile, Rhynchosaurus articeps Owen, of which the bones and footprints characterise the upper New Red Sandstones etc.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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