wacke
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The terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.
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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.
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The quartz arenite and arkose have relatively little silt-clay matrix, while the lithic wacke has abundant matrix.
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The Shoan mountains, of alpine height, exhibit a structure of basalt, wacke, and trachyte; the latter, in all its varieties, surrounds a nucleus of basalt, basaltic wacke, and dolerite.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
The rock is very often of a gray color; hence the name, grau, being German for gray, and wacke, being a provincial miner's term.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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