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wacke

[wak-uh] / ˈwæk ə /


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Another name for a lithic wacke is greywacke.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

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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These compact lavas alternate with tuffs, amygdaloids, and wacke, and in some places with coarse conglomerate.

From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin

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 Sir Charles Lyell




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