wacke

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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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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.

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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 Lyell, Charles, Sir

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 Harris, William Cornwallis