arenaceous
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Sand-dunes in deserts or on coasts are unconsolidated arenaceous rock-masses.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli 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 Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
In the summer of 1904 I again found my ice markings on a layer of arenaceous limestone in the same formation in the Big Bend country in Texas.
From Fossil Ice Crystals An Instance of the Practical Value of "Pure Science" by Udden, Johan August
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
The phenomenon that had broken over the arenaceous couch,—upon which slept the four castaways,—was neither more nor less than a "sand-storm;" or, to give it its Arab title, a simoom.
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
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