wacke

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The quartz arenite and arkose have relatively little silt-clay matrix, while the lithic wacke has abundant matrix.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

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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Every intermediate form is present, between flinty-slate, clay-slate passing into grey wacke, pure limestone, sandstone, and porcellanic rock; and some of the beds can only be described as composed of a siliceo-calcareo-clay-slate.

From Volcanic Islands by Darwin, Charles

Yet it is by no means apparent that these alone have contributed to form the present surface, the south-eastern side of the field terminating in much older formation of wacke.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis