wacke
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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 terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.
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These various lavas often pass, at a considerable depth from the surface, in the most abrupt and singular manner into wacke.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
These banks rise in some instances to hills of firm rock, generally wacke.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
