arenaceous
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The Arabs say that, once “submerged” beneath the arenaceous “flood”, a man loses the power to extricate himself.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
Sandy; partaking of the qualities of sand; brittle; as, arenaceous limestone, quartz, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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
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
It appears that the numerous caverns of the Morea occur in a compact limestone, of the age of the English chalk, immediately below which are arenaceous strata referred to the period of our greensand.
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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