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单词 arenaceous rock
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arenaceous rock
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arenaceous rock: arenaceous rocks
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Arenaceous Rocks include all sediments in which quartz sand is the most important constituent.
Various, The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol....(2010)
Large masses, also, are continually taken up of an arenaceous rock, cemented by calcareous matter, including multitudes of broken shells of recent species.
Lyell, Charles, Sir, Principles of Geology—or, The Moder...(2010)
Calcareous and arenaceous rocks, of which the mountains surrounding Etna are composed, and which appear capped with lava near Bronte and elsewhere.
Rodwell, G. F., Etna—A History of the Mountain and...(2010)
n a sedimentary rock composed of sand
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sandstone
a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)
firestone
a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns
holystone
a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship
grit, gritrock, gritstone
a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
brownstone
a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings
bluestone
bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building
greensand
an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite
siltstone
a fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt
sedimentary rock
rock formed from consolidated clay sediments
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