Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sedimentary rock formed by the consolidation and compaction of sand and held together by a natural cement, such as silica.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rock formed by the consolidation of Sand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
- noun (Min.) the finer-grained variety of itacolumite, which on account of the scales of mica in the lamination is quite flexible.
- noun a name given to two extensive series of British rocks in which red sandstones predominate, one below, and the other above, the coal measures. These were formerly known as the
Old and theNew Red Sandstone respectively, and the former name is still retained for the group preceding the Coal and referred to the Devonian age, but the termNew Red Sandstone is now little used, some of the strata being regarded as Permian and the remained as Triassic. See theChart ofGeology .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sedimentary rock produced by theconsolidation andcompaction ofsand ,cemented withclay etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)
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Examples
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I have many windows I'm fond of remembering, but my favorite is looking out the tent flap, sometimes out of the cliffside shelter site (no 'caves' in sandstone) in North Ponil Canyon outside of Cimarron, NM, during summer hail storms, marveling at the fusion of hail into golfball-to-baseball sizes that when they fell, ripped through the trees, causing a wafting of pine scent sweeping through the canyon.
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The last and most recent of the three groups was the Huastecas with their rich work carved in sandstone and their temple murals in black, ocher, brown, red and white and decorated with sculptures of humans, birds, and serpents.
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The last and most recent of the three groups was the Huastecas with their rich work carved in sandstone and their temple murals in black, ocher, brown, red and white and decorated with sculptures of humans, birds, and serpents.
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The top course of the table land is a layer of magnetic ironstone, which attracted my compass upwards of 20 degrees; underneath is a layer of red sandstone, and below that is an immense mass of white sandstone, which is very soft, and crumbling away with the action of the atmosphere.
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Slower water deposits sands and silts called sandstone and siltstone.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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Slower water deposits sands and silts called sandstone and siltstone.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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A hundred and fifty feet from this pueblo is a large upright block of sandstone, which is said to be used as a datum point in the observations of the sun made by a priest of
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On you go, winding on down past the red limestone and the yellow limestone and the blue sandstone, which is green generally; past huge bat caves and the big nests of pack-rats, tucked under shelves of
Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910
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Near Cumnock (Egypt) is a large exposure of a brownish red, compact sandstone, which is exposed along the banks of Deep river for a distance of half a mile.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The Annunciation cut from sandstone, which is in Santa Croce, is one of his earliest works, and is full of grace and nobleness (Fig. 84).
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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