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sandstone
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from sand (n.) + stone (n.). So called from its composition.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sandstone \Sand"stone`\, n. A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. Note: Different names are applied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sandstone (sometimes known as arenite ) is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand -sized minerals or rock grains . Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust . Like sand, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE red ▪ The video opens in a red sandstone canyon. ▪ Built between 1846 and 1848, mainly of local red sandstone , it carries the line 169 feet above the river. ▪ Nearer Lexington Avenue, the shops that had invaded ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1549 Housing Units (2000): 634 Land area (2000): 5.296212 sq. miles (13.717125 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.139947 sq. miles (0.362461 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.436159 sq. miles (14.079586 sq. km) FIPS code: 58396 Located within: Minnesota ...
Usage examples of sandstone.
It was a breccia, regolith compacted so the grains stuck together, analogous to sandstone on Earth.
The humus seemed to have been dug from a hole under a sloping formation of broken sandstone.
Just push that humus over it, and topple that sandstone slab over that, scatter a few handfuls of dead leaves and trash around.
It overlies a bed of saliferous sandstone which has been worked for salt.
The citadel, crafted from ruddy sandstone blocks quarried in the valley below, appeared to have been designed by a mad patissier for a reception of a million.
Bunter Pebble Beds, harder red and brown sandstones with quartzose pebbles, very abundant in some places.
The Sarsen Stones are the remains of a cap of Tertiary Sandstone which once covered the plain.
Excavation Q, yielded at a depth of three feet six inches to four feet six inches, ten flint axes, one sandstone axe, nine edged flint hammer-stones, four rounded flint hammer-stones, ten Sarsen hammers, and seven mauls, weighing from thirty-six to fifty-eight and a half pounds.
Unfocused, undefined discomfort resolved into thirstdesert-parched mouth, mummified tongue, scurf like sandstone baked onto the teeth.
From the extremity of this chain of vaults, it is commonly believed that a passage extends to the river Stour, two miles distant, and animals are reported to have entered the tunnel at the extremity, and to have re-appeared below Kinver Bridge, where there are fissures in the red sandstone from which issue springs of water.
I had also hoped to find a virgin region lying beyond El-Harrah, the volcanic tract subtending the east of the Hisma, or plateau of New Red Sandstone.
It is of gray sandstone, stained first red, then blue, the latter color being further indicated by settings of green turkois on either side and along the back, as well as in the eyes.
The architecture is simple: bare rectangular rooms, the walls and ceilings made of rough, unplastered tawny sandstone, uninterrupted by moldings or visible beams or other decorative contrivances.
For this one, the designers had some sandstone rubble shipped in and they vitrified it.
These are on the very brink of the mesa, and have been built in recesses in the crowning ledge of sandstone of such size that they could conveniently be walled up on the outside, the outer surface of rude walls being continuous with the precipitous rock face of the mesa.