wacke

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

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In other places the banks are covered by the debris of a slate-clay slightly bituminous, resembling wacke in its mode of disintegrating.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

Passing along the face of the murderous hill, which is of wacke formation, the road descended by several sloping terraces, to the level valley through which the river winds.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis