arenaceous
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These fossils occur in grey earthy limestone, near its junction with the red arenaceous limestone already described.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock
In places the gneiss has been so little changed by heat and pressure that it forms arenaceous flags and shales.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Calcareous and arenaceous rocks, of which the mountains surrounding Etna are composed, and which appear capped with lava near Bronte and elsewhere.
From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by G. F. Rodwell
The common sand-carex and other arenaceous plants bind the loose sand-dunes of our coasts, and give them a permanence, which would at once be destroyed were the sand laid bare again to storms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Probably nine tenths of all the coast lines of the open ocean are formed of arenaceous material.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
