calcreten.
/ˈkalkriːt/, U.S. /ˈkælˌkrit/ A breccia or conglomerate formed by the cementation of rock debris, etc., by calcareous material.
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pinnel1766
grauwacke1794
unguilite1799
greywacke1805
yolky-stone1805
nagelfluh1808
coombe rock1822
pebble bed1849
breccia1856
ceppo1881
banket1886
ouklip1892
crush-conglomerate1893
basal conglomerate1900
calcrete1902
rudite1904
fanglomerate1912
beach-rock1919
1902 Irish Naturalist Oct. 231 Over the Boulder-clay and the calcrete is a bed of limestone sand and gravel.
1903 Geol. Mag. Mar. 139 No one would be likely to quarrel with ‘calcicrete’ and ‘silicicrete’, of which one would be two, the other three, letters longer [than ‘calcrete’, ‘silcrete’].
1903 Nature 22 Oct. 614/1 In the Gulf of Manaar, calcareous masses (‘calcretes’) of great extent are formed in situ on the sea-bottom by the cementing of sand and other loose material by calcareous incrusting Polyzoa.
1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. ii. 45 The tools of those times are found in calcretes and ferricretes.
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