Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sandstone; gritstone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A species of micaceous sandstone.
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- noun mineralogy Any
sandstone , but most often ametamorphosed rock unit with a dominantly sandstoneprotolith .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The prevailing rock was talc-schiste, alternating with layers of psammite.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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The sandstone, or psammite, was composed of large grains of quartz mixed with clay of a whitish red or yellow colour; it frequently formed steep cliffs and craggy rugged little peaks.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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Porphyry was observed on several spots; indurated clay frequently; and, on the top of the hill below which we encamped, I found quartz porphyry, and at the foot a psammite? which I had met several times associated with talc-schiste.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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Under this sandstone (old red sandstone) we find black transition limestone and the grauwack (quartzose psammite) of Florence.)
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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