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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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.
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The terms quartz wacke, lithic wacke, and feldspathic wacke are used.
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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
Two of these streams of basalt were separated from each other by a layer of argillaceous wacke, which could be traced passing into partially altered scoriae.
From Volcanic Islands by Darwin, Charles
