arenaceous
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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
There was little grass about the river for the ferruginous finely-grained sandstone formed still the riverbank, and was exactly similar to the arenaceous rock on the eastern coast.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell
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 Johan August Udden
By experiment, I found a portion of the lower arenaceous part almost completely soluble, in the cold, in nitro-sulphuric acid; and the actual residuum was, in part, owing to a defect in trituration.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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 Mayne Reid
